Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
3130AA1
Site Name
Cretaceous Deposits, Mzamba Beach, Mbizana
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:35
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Yes
Classifications
Location
Location
Mapping
-31.102522, 30.180966
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Street Address
Land Parcel Reference
Bizana
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
Statement of Significance
The Mzamba Formation provides a condensed record of the period between about 86 and 80 million years ago (Klinger pers.comm.), when there was a beach and shallow sea environment in this area, with large trees, marine reptiles, extinct ammonites and large (up to 1 m) mussels, sea urchins, snails and other shell fossils.
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
4327
Notice Date
Notice Number
283
Archive Status
National monument
Media
Media
Images uploaded directly to Site
Images uploaded to linked Site Recordings
Powered by Drupal
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 South Africa License.