Field trips

Field trips are an important part of the LASI conferences. The main post-conference field trip will be to the Karoo Basin. There will also be an excursion to the Addo Elephant Park. Field trip availability will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

  • Post-conference trip to the Karoo Basin. Maximum 50 participants [31.10 to 3.11]
  • One-day pre-conference excursion to the Addo Elephant Park. [28.10.2012]

 

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The saucer-shaped Golden Valley sill was emplaced in undeformed Karoo sediments of the Beaufort Group

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Witkop III hydrothermal vent complex

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Witkop III paleosurface with sandsone pipes and small flow structures

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Contact aureole developed above the upper contact of a sill intrusion

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