Complex thrusting at Uniondale, eastern sector of the Cape Fold Belt, Republic of South Africa: structural evidence for the need to revise the lithostratigraphy

Tectonic evolution of the Cape and Karoo basins of South Africa

“…An en echelon set of faults and folds suggests left-lateral displacement. On outcrop scale, the anticline is intensely structured by north-and south-verging thrusts, with steepest dips in the central zone, and local fault-bounded intersecting conjugate fault sets (hourglass structures) (Booth and Shone, 1999). We interpret this structural complex as a transpressional flower structure.…”

Structural control of fluvial drainage in the western domain of the Cape Fold Belt, South Africa

“…The wavelength of the folds is longer on the central south (about 30 km) and drastically shortens to the east (about 1 km). According to Booth and Shone (1999), the rocks of the Cape Supergroup are generally folded into anticlines and synclines with an average wavelength of 6 km. Thus the folds in most of the study area are fairly open.…”