Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements

Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements
Rock art on the Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavement
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LocationBarkly West, Northern Cape,  South Africa
Coordinates28°35′56.2956″S 24°36′41.6088″E / 28.598971000°S 24.611558000°E / -28.598971000; 24.611558000
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements is located in Northern Cape
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements (Northern Cape)
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements is located in South Africa
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements
Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements (South Africa)

The Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements comprise a geological feature between Kimberley and Barkly West, South Africa, pertaining to the Palaeozoic-age Dwyka Ice Age, or Karoo Ice Age, (some 300 million years ago) where the glacially scoured (smoothed and striated) ancient bedrock (re-exposed by erosion) was used, substantially more recently, during the Later Stone Age period in the late Holocene as panels for rock engravings.[1]

  1. ^ McCarthy, T. & Rubidge, B. 2005. The story of earth and life: a Southern African perspective on a 4.6-billion-year journey. Kumba Resources. p 195-197.