The Sandton field Book: A Guide To The Natural History Of The Northern Witwatersrand By Vincent Carruthers
The Sandton field Book: A Guide To The Natural History Of The Northern Witwatersrand By Vincent Carruthers
Softcover
ISBN 0620059028
Publisher: Sandton Nature Conservation Society 1982
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The wraps are slightly shelf rubbed with very slight knocking at the back. The blocks have some minor marks. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Damp stain.
The Witwatersrand (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a 56-kilometre-long (35 mi), north-facing scarp in South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite metamorphic rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name Witwatersrand, meaning "ridge of white waters" in Afrikaans. The Witwatersrand plateau forms a continental divide, with the run-off to the north draining into the Indian Ocean via the Crocodile and Limpopo rivers, while the run-off to the south drains via the Vaal into the Orange River and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean. Because of the extraordinary quantities of gold that have been extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks, the South African currency was named the rand in 1961 upon the declaration of the republic. While the Northern Witwatersrand used to be farmland, it made a rapid transition to suburbs of over half a million people making the protection of its natural elements all the more important.
