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Koseki, Shunya, Benjamin Pohl, Bhuwan Chandra Bhatt, Noel Keenlyside, and Arielle Stela Nkwinkwa Njouodo. "Insights into the Summer Diurnal Cycle over Eastern South Africa." Monthly Weather Review 146, no. 12 (December 1, 2018): 4339–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-18-0184.1.

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Abstract Adopting a state-of-the-art numerical model system, we investigate how the diurnal variations in precipitation and local breeze systems are characterized by lower-boundary conditions related to the Drakensberg highland and warm SST associated with the Agulhas Current. A control simulation can simulate the hydrometeorological climates in the region realistically, but the terrestrial rainfall is overestimated. During daytime, the precipitation is confined to the Drakensberg highland, and there is an onshore local breeze, while during midnight to morning, the rainfall is confined to the Agulhas Current, and the breeze is offshore. These variations are captured by the numerical simulation, although the timing of maximum rainfall is early over the land and delayed over the ocean. The sensitivity experiment in which the Drakensberg is absent shows a drastic modification in the diurnal variations over land and ocean. The terrestrial precipitation is largely decreased around the Drakensberg and is largest along the coast during daytime. The nocturnal marine precipitation along the Agulhas Current is also reduced. Although the daily residual breeze is still pronounced even without the Drakensberg, wind speed is weakened. We attribute this to the reduction of precipitation. In another sensitivity experiment with smoothened warm SST due to the Agulhas Current, the amplitudes of diurnal variations are not modified remarkably, but the coastal rainfall is diminished to some extent due to less evaporation along the Agulhas Current. This study concludes that the Drakensberg plays a crucial role for the diurnal cycle, and the impact of the Agulhas Current is limited on the diurnal cycle of the coastal precipitation in this region.
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Klopper, R. R., S. P. Bester, and G. F. Smith. "PTERIDOPHYTA: RANGE EXTENSION RECORDS FROM THE SOUTHERN DRAKENSBERG. EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA." Bothalia 40, no. 1 (July 22, 2010): 82–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v40i1.192.

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Gordon, Kerry. "SAGES Congress, 16 - 18 August 2013, Drakensberg, South Africa." South African Medical Journal 103, no. 8 (June 27, 2013): 568. http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/samj.7178.

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Boelhouwers, Jan C. "Periglacial landforms at Giant'S Castle, Natal Drakensberg, South Africa." Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 5, no. 3 (August 1994): 129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.3430050302.

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Knight, Jasper, Stefan W. Grab, and Clinton Carbutt. "Influence of mountain geomorphology on alpine ecosystems in the Drakensberg Alpine Centre, Southern Africa." Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 100, no. 2 (January 12, 2018): 140–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2017.1418628.

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Roux, J. P. "SELAGINELLACEAE." Bothalia 38, no. 2 (August 14, 2008): 153–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v38i2.284.

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Crouch, N. R., and J. Wesley-Smith. "Pteridophyta–Marsileaceae." Bothalia 41, no. 1 (December 13, 2011): 201–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/abc.v41i1.50.

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Delves, Jess L., V. Ralph Clark, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Nigel P. Barker, Jörg Szarzynski, Stefano Tondini, João de Deus Vidal, and Andrea Membretti. "Scrutinising Multidimensional Challenges in the Maloti-Drakensberg (Lesotho/South Africa)." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (July 30, 2021): 8511. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158511.

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The Maloti-Drakensberg (MD) is the largest and highest-elevation mountain system in southern Africa. Covering 40,000 km2 and reaching 3500 m, the MD provides a range of ecosystem services (ES) to the entire southern African region—benefitting diverse users and extending well beyond the mountains. Rapid socioecological change threatens the provision of ES and presents multidimensional challenges to sustainable development. However, the continued land degradation and persisting socioeconomic problems indicate that development policy has not been effective in tackling these issues. In this paper, a multidisciplinary literature review forms the basis of a discussion which takes an ES framing to scrutinise the multidimensional social, political, economic and cultural issues in the study area. Three critical management systems are presented, and their associated ES are discussed, namely, water transfer, rangelands and conservation and tourism. In particular, the diversity of ES uses and values in the MD is considered. The results reveal the main drivers of continued unsustainable development and highlight important information gaps.
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Linde, Jonathan, and Stefan Grab. "Regional Contrasts in Mountain Tourism Development in the Drakensberg, South Africa." Mountain Research and Development 28, no. 1 (February 2008): 65–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1659/mrd.0937.

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Telfer, M. W., S. C. Mills, and A. E. Mather. "Extensive Quaternary aeolian deposits in the Drakensberg foothills, Rooiberge, South Africa." Geomorphology 219 (August 2014): 161–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.05.006.

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Beeslaar, Salome. "Geomorphology of a portion of Mariepskop, South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40238.

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Hillslopes usually have high heterogeneity in terms of landscape processes. Interactions occur between geology, geomorphological processes, and vegetation distribution on a hillslope. This study was undertaken to assess the processes and interactions of geology, regolith production, geomorphological processes, channel formation and how these are influenced by the vegetation on a portion of Mariepskop. Mariepskop forms part of the Drakensberg Escarpment, but is a separate hillslope within the Mpumalanga Province. A north-eastern portion of the Mariepskop forms the study site, with a drainage line located within the site. Deciduous bush covers most of the study site, and grassland patches occur on the southern parts of the study site. Quartz-feldspar-biotite gneiss dominates most of the area with the cliff and higher parts consisting of feldspar-rich schist. Three site visits were undertaken where bedrock geology, weathering, soil formation, erosion, mass movement processes and the drainage channel were assessed. Maps of these processes as well as slope profiling and plan forms were compiled. According to the results, Mariepskop shows heterogeneous processes both laterally and vertically, with various degrees of interactions taking place. Underlying geology, mass movements on higher altitudes, and soil creep on lower altitudes occur on both the northern and southern parts. Processes mainly occurring on the northern part are rockfall from drainage channel incision, weathering, rill erosion and fluvial erosion within the drainage channel. Main processes on the southern part are mass movement in term form of slumping/debris flow, and erosion, in particular rainsplash and overland flow. Soil is deeper on northern part than on southern part of the study site. Geomorphological processes interact with the vegetation distribution over the study area. Grassland patches on the southern part of the study site are mainly due to slumping/debris flow, rainsplash erosion, convexity of the plan form (therefore no valleys) and oxidic soils occurrence. Similar geomorphological processes will probably influence grassland patches over the rest of Mariepskop.
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Kück, Karen Melody. "Periglacial features in the vicinity of Tiffindell Ski Resort, North East Cape Drakensberg, South Africa, and their implications for the development of the resort." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005520.

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This thesis provides a description of the periglacial environment and features in the vicinity of Tiffindell Ski resort, on the slopes of Ben MacDhui (3001.2m.), the highest point of the East Cape Drakensberg, South Africa. Active and inactive periglacial features were located, mapped and described. Of particular interest were periglaciar slope deposits including gelifluction turf-banked lobes and stone lobes, and cryoturbation features including polygons and thufur. Local environmental factors, such as aspect, moisture, topography, soil texture and depth of freezing, appear to act as important controls on the spatial distribution of the periglacial features. Identification and quantification of periglacial processes in the regolith was investigated using temperature and soil moisture sensors coupled to dataloggers. Research was undertaken over a 16 month period from June 1995 to September 1996 so that comparisons between the winter conditions of 1995 and 1996 could be drawn. The Tiffindell area was observed to be characterised in the winter months by 'diurnal freezethaw days', as well as by 'ice days', 1996 experiencing colder temperatures than 1995. With more than 78% of the days from May to September 1996 being 'ice days', and simultaneously experiencing high soil moisture contents, freezing penetration to a depth of greater than 0.2m was observed to occur in the Tiffindell area, causing frost heave and gelifluction. The summer thaw of ice lenses that developed in the cold winter months caused surface movement downslope of gelifluction lobes of up to 39mm over an 18 month period, although movement declined rapidly with depth and was essentially restricted to the uppermost 130mm of the regolith. Other features such as sorted and non-sorted polygons and thufur were identified and found to be active under the present climatic conditions and depth of frost penetration at Tiffindell. Stone lobes were identified on the south and southeast-facing slopes at Tiffindell, but are apparently inactive under present climatic conditions. Their existence suggests the presence of severe seasonal frost in the past. The implications of the air and ground surface temperatures, and of seasonal frost penetration for the development of Tiffindell Ski resort were considered, and suggestions regarding their economic significance are presented.
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Nel, Werner. "On the climate of the Drakensberg rainfall and surface-temperature attributes, and associated geomorphic effects /." Thesis, Pretoria : [S.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01252008-164156/.

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Mzobe, Pearl Nonjabulo. "Sediment linkages in a small catchment in the Mount Fletcher southern Drakensberg region, South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013224.

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Soil erosion is a persistent problem that requires continued control efforts as agricultural land loses productivity and communities dependent on the land become increasingly vulnerable to decreased food security. The negative effects of soil erosion in Khamopele River catchment, in the Mount Fletcher southern Drakensberg region of South Africa, are manifest in extensive gullying and wetland loss. Soil erosion has resulted in siltation in a recently constructed dam and the alteration of aquatic habitats. This research was undertaken to identify the sources of eroded sediment in the small upper catchments of the Mzimvubu River catchment to inform broader catchment management strategies. The scale of erosion was quantified using field surveys of gully extent and form. Environmental magnetic tracing techniques were used to determine the sources of eroded sediment in Khamopele River and upper Tina River catchments. The radionuclide ¹³⁷Cs was used to determine soil loss over a 55 year period in Khamopele River catchment. The Landscape Connectivity framework was used to describe the sediment source, pathway and sink interactions at sample area level. Results indicated that historical and contemporary land management practices such as uncontrolled grazing, grassland burning and furrows promoted soil erosion in the catchment. Soil erosion was most pronounced in the Taung sample area where there was extensive gullying, tunnelling and subsurface erosion. Environmental magnetic tracing results indicated that there were clear differences in source areas. Despite its prevalence in the area, gully erosion was not shown to be a major source of sediment to downstream sinks. Topsoil and hillslope derived sediment were shown to be mobile in the catchment, suggesting that sheet erosion processes were dominant in the catchment. Radionuclide tracing studies showed that at least 20 cm of soil had been eroded from the Khamopele River catchment surface since 1956. This research has shown that it is possible to distinguish source areas of erosion in the catchment by matching catchment mineral magnetic signatures to those in sink areas. This means that rehabilitation projects can use resources efficiently as the areas needing the most attention can be identified.
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Hill, Trevor Raymond. "Contemporary pollen spectra from the Natal Drakensberg and their relation to associated vegetation communities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003768.

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The research focuses on the contemporary pollen rain-vegetation relationship for vegetation communities within the Natal Drakensberg, a region which is recognized as having the potential for extensive palynological investigations. The objective was to investigate the fundamental assumption underlying palynology, viz: that the pollen rain of a particular region is indicative or representative of the existing vegetation of that region. If the modern pollen rain is indicative of and/or distinctive for a particular vegetation community then the principle of methodological uniformitarianism can be applied, which states that the present day patterns and relationships can provide a factual basis for the reconstruction of the past through the extrapolation of modern analogues backwards in time. A vegetation survey was conducted in thirteen communities identified as pertinent to the research and a two-year modern pollen rain sampling programme was carried out, using both surface soil and pollen trap samples as a means of recording and quantifying the pollen rain. Once the necessary sample preparation and pollen counts had been performed, descriptive and numerical/statistical methods were employed to determine and describe the existing pollen-vegetation relationship. Descriptive analysis of the data sets was carried out with the aid of spectra depicted as rotated bar graphs and representing the relative percentage frequencies of the collected/counted taxa. Annual and seasonal pollen influx values were calculated and presented. Analysis of variance was applied to test various hypotheses related to sampling strategy and pollen influx variation. Statistical methods employed were two-way indicator species analysis (a classification analysis technique), detrended correspondence analysis and principal components analysis (ordination techniques), canonical correlation analysis (for data set association) and multiple discriminant analysis (for determination of vegetation zonal indices). The latter technique allowed for the probability of modern analogues to be assessed which are necessary for accurate interpretation of fossil pollen assemblages if the assumption under investigation is correct. The findings of the study were that the modern pollen rain-vegetation assumption holds true. Recommendations are put forward regarding future contemporary pollen studies with regards to the number of soil and pollen trap samples required, the magnitude of the pollen count and the numerical/statistical techniques most appropriate to clearly interpret the results. The conclusions are that future fossil pollen spectra can be expected to provide a good indication of former regional vegetation patterns for the study region. The study has extended the limited understanding of the contemporary pollen rain-vegetation relationship in South Africa and enables the interpretation of fossil pollen spectra to be carried out with greater confidence. This in turn lends greater credibility to possible Quaternary environmental change models required to help understand present and possible future environmental change.
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Morris, Dale Brett. "The Drakensberg rock-jumper: ecology and genetic status of isolated montane populations." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007696.

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The Drakensberg rock-jumper (Chaetops aurantius) is a high-altitude passerine endemic to South Africa and Lesotho, living along a highly disrupted portion of the southern Great Escarpment from the Drakensberg highlands in the north-east to the Sneeuberg in the west, above an altitude of 1500 m. Along with the Cape rock-jumper (C. frenatus), this genus provides one of the stronger faunal links between the floristic biomes known as the Drakensberg Alpine Centre (DAC) and the Cape Floristic Region (CFR). Despite this, there is a significant lack of information regarding the species. The great majority of information is based on incidental observation, and no dedicated study has been undertaken. I conducted a series of field excursions between January 2011 and November 2012 in order to explore the rock-jumper’s feeding ecology, diet, habitat usage and genetic diversity. By trapping the birds, I was able to mark them individually with unique colour ring-combinations, and pluck a tail feather for genetic analyses. Observational data reveal that birds living close to their lower altitude threshold (c. 1500 m) are strongly habitat specific, living in boulder fields dominated by grassy vegetation. However, in areas at higher elevations (c. 2000 – 2500 m) this restriction seemed to fall away, possibly as a result of farming practices in those areas – higher grazing pressure results in shorter grass and less foraging effort for the birds. They live in groups ranging from pairs to small family groups of up to twelve individuals and maintain year round territories. Territory defence takes the form of calling and displaying from a prominent rock or boulder and becomes particularly noticeable just prior to, and during, the breeding period. No colour ringed individuals were ever spotted in boulder fields outside from where they had been initially ringed. This, coupled with the behaviour of territory maintenance, suggests a strongly sedentary lifestyle. Genetic inferences are constrained by a small sample size (only 25 birds were caught), but results indicate that some genetic isolation is occurring – a single haplotype was exhibited in birds from across the southern Escarpment, while seven private haplotypes show that any genetic mixing is likely to be historical rather than current. Historical gene flow would most probably have occurred during the last glacial maximum (18 000 years before present), when the cooler, drier conditions which are currently restricted to high peaks would have been much more extensive, thereby decreasing the distance required for effective dispersal. This is in agreement with the observation results, concluding that although there has been movement of birds across the southern Escarpment in the past, it does not appear to be occurring currently. However, this does leave plenty of scope for further work, particularly in the genetic diversity of the species, and in expanding the ecological observations to include the breeding biology.
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De, Bruin Mauritz. "The application of Forensic Geomorphology in rhinoceros poaching (South Africa)." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51385.

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A prevalence of wildlife poaching with escalations has occurred since 2008, especially regarding rhinoceros poaching. It is essential to protect southern Africa’s heritage by developing/adapting new research methods and techniques that can assist prosecutors to improve their successes in achieving convictions. The aim of the study was to investigate the use of forensic geomorphology in the context of a poached rhino to assist in the prosecution of suspected poachers. This study was conducted at two experimental study sites which mimicked the aspects of the landscape of rhinoceros by utilising the landscape through a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques. Trace evidence was removed from the suspects that moved through the mimicked landscape in order to verify if any significant similarities could be identified. The study concluded that a linkage could be recognized between the selected landscape and the trace evidence collected from the suspects’ belongings in both experimental studies. The results from the first experimental study site illustrated that a definite linkage could be made between the suspects and the landscape, whereas the second experimental study site suggested that there was a possibility that a linkage could be made.
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Tshivhandekano, Pfarelo Grace. "Ant diversity and body size patterns across an altitudinal gradient in the Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79787.

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Patterns of invertebrate species richness and body size across elevational gradients have been well-documented in a variety of studies. However, very little is known about the factors that govern these patterns along elevational gradients. A number of studies have have reported a monotonic decrease in species richness with increasing elevation; while others have observed a hump-shaped pattern, where the peak of species richness occurs at an intermediate elevation. For body size, studies have recorded larger size at higher elevations; some smaller and some have recorded no change across elevational gradients. Even though these patterns have been well-documented, the majority of them did not study invertebrates. This is surprising given that invertebrates such as ants are widely regarded as powerful monitoring tools in environmental management because they are abundant, diverse, easy to sample, sensitive to perturbation and they can indicate long-term general ecosystem change. Elevational gradients are isolated fragmented, spatially complex, comprise harsh environmental conditions and often retain comparatively intact habitats. The steep elevational gradients enable species to track climatic changes over short distances. Temperature varies across elevational gradients and variation in rates of growth and development at different temperatures may lead in differences in the mean body size of an insect species along elevational gradients. Body size can also be associated with species range size and geographic patterns of distribution and diversity. Ant diversity and body size patterns were investigated using data collected during March and November 2011 across an elevational gradient at Mariepskop. Pitfall traps were used to sample ants at five elevational sites and environmental variables were also collected at each sampling site. Body size was measured for some of the individuals selected from all ant species collected and simple regressions were used to examine altitudinal body size patterns within and across species. A total of 92 ant species were collected from 30 genera. Ant species density decreased monotonically with increasing elevation and abundance also declined as elevation increased. Altitude, vegetation complexity, height of grass, proportion of bare ground and clay in the soil were the five environmental variables that contributed significantly to the variance explained in the ant assemblages. Body size increased with altitude within species for Plagiolepis sp. 45, Pheidole sp. 1, Monomorium sp. 12 and Tetramorium sp. 3. No body size relationship was established across species when using the across species method whereas the Stevens method indicates a decrease in body size with elevation. A number of factors are responsible for structuring ant assemblages and body size along elevational gradients and it is not easy to establish to what extent each of the factors is responsible for the variation. Factors such as availability of resources, starvation resistance, accelerated maturation and adaptation to local environment are associated with positive relationship between body size and altitude. Related mechanisms such as desiccation resistance, metabolic rate, competition and predation contributing to the observed responses to elevation are discussed.
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Bentley, Joanne. "The evolution of the Afrotemperate-endemic genus Macowania (Asteraceae) in the Drakensberg region of South Africa." Bachelor's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24852.

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The cosmopolitan Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae, or paper daisies or everlastings, form a significant component of both the dry and cool temperate floras of southern Africa. Within this tribe exists a small Afrotemperate genus, Macowania, endemic to the grassland biome of South Africa and occurring almost exclusively within the Drakensberg region, apart from two disjunct species in North Africa. The age, relationships and geographic origin of Macowania is investigated in order to provide insight into the factors affecting speciation, especially uplift events, on this small Afrotemperate genus. A well-supported phylogenetic hypothesis based on both nuclear and chloroplast genes suggests that Macowania is sister to a clade corresponding to the Relhania clade s.s., and that these are in turn sister to a clade containing the genera Athrixia and Pentatrichia. Macowania is monophyletic only with the inclusion of the enigmatic monotypic genus Arrowsmithia, resulting in the future synonymy of Macowania with Arrowsmithia. The anomalous species M. pinifolia, previously part of the genus Athrixia, is placed in a polytomy with the Relhania s.s. clade and the remaining species of Macowania and Arrowsmithia. DNA sequence data could not be obtained for several Macowania species, including the taxa from North Africa. The placement of these species within Macowania is confirmed by means of a parsimony analysis of morphological characters against a molecular backbone constraint tree. One species, M. tenuifolia, is well-supported in two different placements within Macowania by chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequence data. The best position of this species is inferred by incongruence decomposition analysis and morphological affinities. Bayesian relaxed clock methods and ancestral area reconstruction using maximum likelihood and squared change parsimony estimate the age and ancestral area of the genus, and determine the timing and route of colonisation of the Drakensberg. Diversification within Macowania is consistent in timing with the uplift events during the Miocene and Pliocene that resulted in significant vertical movement in eastern South Africa, suggesting that colonisation of the high-elevation Drakensberg grassland by Macowania was promoted by uplift. The topographic heterogeneity and increased river action resulting from the uplift may also have promoted evolution into new habitats and potentially mediated the movement of the ancestor of Macowania into the Drakensberg region via riparian habitats.
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Steynberg, Peter John. "A survey of San paintings from the southern Natal Drakensberg." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004918.

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From Introduction: The study of San rock art has undergone several different phases in approach to the interpretation of art. Two approaches are currently in use. The first emphasises the art as narrative or literal representations of San life and its proponents may be called the "art for art's sake" school. Adherents to the second approach make detailed use of the San ethnography on the belief system of these people and are highly critical of the literalists because they provide no such context. The second approach has rapidly gained ascendancy and replaced the "art for art's sake" school over the last twenty years. The watershed came with the researches of Vinnicombe (1967) in the southern Drakensberg and Maggs (1967) in the Western Cape who both embarked upon programs of research which had quantification and numerical analysis at their core, so that they could present "...some objective observations on a given sample of rock paintings in a particular area..." in order to compare and contrast paintings from geographically different areas. What Vinnicombe's numerical analyses clearly showed was that the eland was the most frequently depicted antelope and that it must have played a fundamental role "...in both the economy and the rellgious beliefs of the painters...", which opened up the search for what those beliefs might be and how they could be related to the rock art itself. In order to understand what the rock art was all about it was recognised that researchers had to meaningfully contextualise the art within the social and religious framework of the artists themselves. Without the provision of such a relevant context, as many different interpretations of the paintings could be made as there were people with imaginations. Such a piecemeal approach provides a meaningless jumble of subjective fancy which tells us something about the interpreters but nothing about the rock art. It is unfortunate that the advent of this explicitly social and anthropological approach marks the end of the amateur as a serious interpreter of San rock art, for the juxtaposition of the ethnography with the rock art requires a proper training in which the intricacies of symbol and metaphor can be recognised.
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Books on the topic "Geomorphology - South Africa - Drakensberg"

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Thomas, Val. Sappi tree spotting: Highveld and the Drakensberg : tree & shrub identification made easy. Johannesburg: Jacana, 1998.

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International, Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology (6th 1997 Cape Town South Africa). Catchment influences on the geomorphology and biota of the Sabie and Letaba Rivers in the Kruger National Park: Pre-conference field excursion, 6th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 15 to 20 September, 1997. [Cape Town, South Africa: The Conference, 1997.

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Walking in the Drakensberg: 75 walks. Cicerone Press Limited, 2017.

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A, Lewis Colin, ed. The geomorphology of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Grahamstown: Grocott & Sherry Publishers, 1996.

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Thomas, Valerie. Highveld and the Drakensberg (Sappi Tree Spotting). Jacana Media, 2003.

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Knight, Jasper, and Stefan Grab. Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa. Springer, 2015.

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Jörg, Grunert, ed. Geomorphology of the tropics with special reference to South Asia and Africa. Berlin: Borntraeger, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Geomorphology - South Africa - Drakensberg"

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Ndlovu, Ndukuyakhe. "uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park (South Africa), Rock Art At." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2833-1.

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Ndlovu, Ndukuyakhe. "uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park (South Africa), Rock Art at." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 10763–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2833.

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Ferentinou, Maria. "Rockfall Hazard Assessment at the World Heritage Site of Giant’s Castle Reserve, Drakensberg, South Africa." In IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018 - Volume 1, 85–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93124-1_11.

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"Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa." In Dictionary of Geotourism, 651. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_2630.

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Cooper, Andrew, Ian Wright, and Tom Mason. "Geomorphology and sedimentology." In Estuaries of South Africa, 5–26. Cambridge University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511525490.002.

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Orme, Antony R. "Barrier and Lagoon Systems Along the Zululand Coast, South Africa." In Coastal Geomorphology, 181–218. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003022077-9.

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Knight, Jasper. "Transforming the Physical Geography of a City: An Example of Johannesburg, South Africa." In Urban Geomorphology, 129–47. Elsevier, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-811951-8.00008-4.

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Taylor, S. J., J. W. H. Ferguson, F. A. Engelbrecht, V. R. Clark, S. Van Rensburg, and N. Barker. "The Drakensberg Escarpment as the Great Supplier of Water to South Africa." In Developments in Earth Surface Processes, 1–46. Elsevier, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-444-63787-1.00001-9.

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Thornes, John, and Jamie Woodward. "Hydrology, River Regimes, and Sediment Yield." In The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199268030.003.0020.

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In comparison to the rest of Europe, Africa, and Asia, most rivers arising and flowing within the Mediterranean watershed typically drain small catchments with mountainous headwaters. The hydrology of Mediterranean catchments is strongly influenced by the seasonal distribution of precipitation, catchment geology, vegetation type and extent, and the geomorphology of the slope and channel systems. It is important to appreciate, as the preceding chapters have shown, that the area draining to the Mediterranean Sea is large and enormously variable in terms of the key controls on catchment hydrology outlined above, and it is therefore not possible to define, in hydrological terms, a strict single Mediterranean river type. However, river regimes across the basin do have a marked seasonality that is largely controlled by the climate system (Chapter 3) and, in most basins, the dominant flows occur in winter—but autumn and spring runoff is also important in many areas. These patterns reflect the general water balance of the basin as a whole, but there are key geographical patterns in catchment hydrology and sediment yield and a marked contrast is evident between the more humid north and the semi-arid south and east (Struglia et al. 2004; Chapter 21). Also, because of the long history of vegetation and hillslope modification by human activity and the more recent and widespread implementation of water resource management projects, there are almost no natural river regimes in the Mediterranean region, especially in the middle and lower reaches of river catchments (Cudennec et al. 2007). Runoff generation on hillslopes in the Mediterranean is very closely related to rainfall intensities and land surface properties as discussed in Chapter 6. While this is probably true of most catchments, runoff generation in the Mediterranean is very sensitive to vegetation cover because of the seasonal dynamics of rainfall and the role played by extreme events. The cumulative effect of these characteristics is a specific set of management problems and restoration issues and, although these are rather different in the various socio-political regimes of the region, it can be argued that they are in many ways unique to Mediterranean catchments.
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