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sandstone ranges that stretch from Babylon's Tower to 

 Bredasdorp. 



The Worcester fault, with a maximum throw of more 

 than 12,000 feet extends at least seventy miles towards 

 the east, and plays the part of the southern limb of the 

 complex anticline of the Langebergen. The Langeber- 

 gen anticlines, although the mountains are known by 

 other names, such as the Attaquas, Outiniquas, Long 

 Kloof, Zitzikamma, and Kareedouws Mountains in their 

 eastern portions, die out on the coast shelf of Humans- 

 dorp, 300 miles from their commencement at Hex Kiver. 1 

 At many parts of the Langebergen the beds are over- 

 turned, so that the sandstones are overlain by older 

 rocks on the south side, and underlain by newer beds on 

 the north flank. The structure of the range is shown 

 in the section accompanying the Geological Map and in 

 Fig. 9. 



To the north of the western part of the Langebergen 

 the Table Mountain series disappears under the Bokke- 

 veld and later beds of the country called the Ladismith 

 or Small Karroo, a wide synclinal basin broken by the 

 Warm Water Berg and Touw's Berg, east and west an- 

 ticlines, which are rather steeply pitched at both ends, 

 so that the shape of the Table Mountain sandstone areas 

 is elliptical. 



To the west of the Ladismith Karroo lies the Touw's 

 Vlakte, with four small anticlinal ridges of sandstone, 

 similar to Touw's Berg and Warm Water Berg except 

 in size. The east end of the Ladismith Karroo is closed 

 in by a series of three roughly parallel and pitching anti- 



1 Schwarz, G. C., x., p. 74. 



