GEO035

Forms a well-known International landmark. The geology of Table Mountain is described in a brochure by the Western Cape Branch of the Geological Society of South Africa, which is to be placed on Internet. The mountain is built of resistant sandstone of the Ordovician Peninsula Formation overlying thinner shale and sandstone of the Graafwater Formation. This lies unconformably on slate of the late Precambrian Malmesbury Group below Devil's Peak and on intruded granite of the early Cambrian Cape Granite Suite on the lower slopes of the mountain elsewhere in the Cape Peninsula.