... of a number of existing informal rural villages ( Stapelberg et al., 2020 ). The site is roughly 2 000 hectares in extent, elongated and located along the course of the episodic Moshaweng River, roughly 80 kilometres northwest of the town of Kuruman. Since the site occurs in an area covered by aeolian...

... to >17km over 150km. The Ventersdorp Supergroup underlies the Transvaal Sequence right to the western extremity of the craton. Close to the margin, we recognise a normal fault, here named the Moshaweng fault, with >6km normal displacement and an unknown distance of strike-slip displacement. Three...

... about during fresher water infill interspersed with brine evapo-concentration and later evaporative pumping, induced the mobilisation and precipitation of the silica cement immediately below the pan floor. Figure 4. ( A ) Silcrete plain southwest of lower Boteti River at ~912 m facing south (see...