Gamsberg Mountain - Namibia


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Gamsberg Mountain, a flat-topped granite residual capped by a ~25 m thick quartzite unit. Cosmogenic nuclide analyses indicate that the flat top of the Gamsberg is eroding very slowly, at an astonishing rate of less than one meter per million years.

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Alexandru T Codilean
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