Giants Playground Namibia
The Giants Playground , is situated on the Farm Gariganus, the same that is home to the Quiver Tree
The Giants Playground , is situated on the Farm Gariganus, the same that is home to the Quiver Tree Forest. You must buy your ticket at the farm office as the Giants Playground lays a…
Massive Boulders doing a precarious balancing act near Keetmanshoop Namibia
Giants Playground Namibia - a geological phenomena
Giants Playground - The Formation:
About 180 million years ago during the Early Jurassic Epoch the tectonic plate movements within the great single land mass known a Pangaea were beginning to cause the super continent to separate and divide into the continents of Laurasia to the North and Gondwana to the South. The earth's surface, in many places, was subjected to enormous upheavals. In the area around Keetmanshoop molten magma pushed its way through long cracks in the overlaying rock. Over tens of millions of years, the deep layers of sedimentary rocks through which the dolerite had intruded were eroded away exposing the harder rock that can, in many places, be seen as the dark backbone like formation running along the top of a row of hills. These are called dolerite dykes and are usually between 3 - 10 meters in width and can run from a few hundred metres to more than 20 km in length.
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