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Diving the Tsitsikamma Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels

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About Diving the Tsitsikamma

The coastline is fairly straight, and is generally very steep from a relatively flat coastal region between the inland mountains and the sea. Much of the shoreline can best be described as cliffs. The rock formations are heavily folded sandstones and shales of the Table Mountain series. The coastline formation to the west of the river mouth is the SilurianTchandoformation, which is typically fine to coarse grained brown sandstone and shale, and inland and across the river to the east, mostly OrdovicianPeninsulasandstone. Offshore formations may include DevonianGydoshales and siltstones. Folding is roughly parallel to the coastline, and dip is frequently near vertical, even overfolded in places. Resistance to weathering is also very variable, with some extremely resistant quartzitic sandsto

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