February 9, 2010

Selati Big Dig!




Selati students slaving away at excavating a dolerite dyke. We wanted to see how far the intrusion spread through the surrounding granite rock.

The lowveld is criss-crossed by dolerite dykes. This is an intrusive igneous rock that pushed into the granite base 150 million years ago.

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