Cape Fold Mountains topographic map

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Cape Fold Mountains

The degree to which the original Cape Fold mountains (formed during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods) have been eroded is attested to by the fact that the 1 km high Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula is a syncline mountain, meaning that it formed part of the bottom of a valley when the Cape Supergroup was initially folded. The anticline, or highest elevation of the fold between Table Mountain and the Hottentots-Holland Mountains (1.2 to 1.6 km elevation), on the opposite side of the isthmus connecting the Peninsula to the Mainland, has been eroded away. The Malmesbury shale and granite basement on which this anticline mountain rested also formed an anticline; but being composed of much softer rocks, readily eroded into a 50 km wide flat plain, (now covered with dune sands) called the "Cape Flats".

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Name: Cape Fold Mountains topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Cape Fold Mountains, Prince Albert Local Municipality, Central Karoo District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa (-33.33338 21.99995 -33.33328 22.00005)

Average elevation: 4,656 ft

Minimum elevation: 3,727 ft

Maximum elevation: 5,469 ft

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