Sentences with phrase «tankwa karoo»

The government on Oct. 16 published proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing as it seeks to tap as much as 390 trillion cubic feet of resources in the Karoo.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is among explorers to have applied for permits to explore the Karoo.

The Treasure Karoo Action Group, named after the semi-desert area of South Africa that has attracted petroleum exploration companies, started in Johannesburg today the latest phase of a campaign to block the drilling technique.

Driving through the Karoo dessert we passed a tortoise crossing the road.

It is ochre - tinged by its two main ingredients — turmeric and cumin, and its color brings to mind the sand of South Africa's Karoo desert.

Located at the South African Karoo Astronomy Reserve, the antennas will all work in synch to effectively create one massive telescope.

The fact that we find Eunotosaurus at the base of the Karoo succession strongly suggest that there are more ancestral forms of tortoises still to be discovered in the Karoo,» Rubidge added.

The rocks of the Karoo are remarkable in the diversity of fossils of early tortoises they have produced.

The rocks of the Karoo, deposited over a very long period from 300 - 180 million years ago, are internationally renowned for their wealth of fossils, particularly of therapsid reptiles which are the distant ancestors of mammals.

«But if you know what you're looking for, the Karoo represents a wealth of knowledge about the story of life on Earth.»

For her PhD, Viglietti studied the fossil - rich sediments present in the Karoo, deposited during the tectonic events that created the Gondwanides, and found that the vertebrate animals in the area started to either go extinct or become less common much earlier than what was previously thought.

«Ancient, lost, mountains in the Karoo reveals the secrets of massive extinction event.»

«The Karoo Basin takes up a huge portion of South Africa and most of us who drive through it do not think much of it,» says Viglietti.

This was the effect that the Gondwanides had on the sedimentation in the Karoo Basin over a 100 Million years.

«The Gondwanides not only influenced how and where rivers flowed (depositing sediment), it also had a significant effect on the climate, and thus the ancient fauna of the Karoo Basin,» says Viglietti.

The South African array, centered in the Karoo desert in the Northern Cape, will observe in the middle and high frequencies above 500 MHz.

Living in the Karoo, near Colesberg in South Africa, the Euchambersia developed a deep and circular fossa, just behind its canine teeth in the upper jaw, in which a deadly venomous cocktail was produced, and delivered directly into the mouth through a fine network of bony grooves and canals.

For one week out of every six, Still left his wife and toddler, taking a minibus to the Karoo Plateau, about 20 kilometers from the nearest village and nearly 500 kilometers from Cape Town.

The SKA will also be the first astronomy project gathering three of the five major emerging national economies: India, China, and South Africa — the last of which will host the core of the radio telescope in its Karoo Desert.

With its six distinct Regions, Cape Town Peninsula, Winelands, West Coast, Overberg, Garden Route, Karoo and Central Karoo, offers unparalleled beauty, a scintillating variety of experiences and value for money.

There were extensive polar ice caps at intervals from 350 to 260 million years ago, during the Carboniferous and early Permian Periods, associated with the Karoo Ice Age.

In light of the dip discovery, other observatories are being retooled to study this interesting frequency, such as the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) project located in South Africa's Karoo desert.

«Most of what we know about the major mass extinction is from the South African Karoo Basin.

In southern Africa, rocks of the Karoo Supergroup cover almost two - thirds of the present land surface, including central Cape Province, almost all of Orange Free State, western Natal, much of There are more than 2000 shipwrecks off the South African coast, most dating back at least 500 years.

Prince Albert, South Africa, Western Cape, Karoo Accommodation, Prince Albert of Monaco slept apart from his new bride Charlene after their wedding because he had an early meeting the next day and didn't want to get

This falls on the border of the Western Cape and the Northern Cape and is part of the Karoo's semi-desert.

The Western Cape offers a little bit of European splendour in an African setting, from the off the beaten track towns of the Klein Karoo, through to the Garden Route and Oudtshoorn, dubbed the Ostrich Capital, to the magnificent Wine Route in Stellenbosch, there's lots for family's to see and do.

If you're not a fan of the classic beach holiday, head to the Karoo.

The R 1200 GS Rallye rolls on cross-spoke wheel with great offrroad capability and Metzeler Karoo 3 off - road tyres.

She leaned down to kiss my cheek, but she missed and kissed the dry Karoo air instead.

Across the veld were those low hills of the Klein Karoo, rolling up and dipping down like waves.

Table of Contents 1 Lighting Out 2 The Mother of the World 3 Up and Down the Nile 4 The Dervishes of Omdurman 5 The Osama Road to Nubia 6 The Djibouti Line to Harar 7 The Longest Road in Africa 8 Figawi Safari on the Bandit Road 9 Rift Valley Days 10 Old Friends in Bat Valley 11 The MV Umoja Across Lake Victoria 12 The Bush Train to Dar es Salaam 13 The Kilimanjaro Express to Mbeya 14 Through the Outposts of the Plateau 15 The Back Road to Soche Hill School 16 River Safari to the Coast 17 Invading Drummond's Farm 18 The Bush Border Bus to South Africa 19 The Hominids of Johannesburg 20 The Wild Things at Mala Mala 21 Faith, Hope, and Charity on the Limpopo Line 22 The Trans - Karoo Express to Cape Town 23 Blue Train Blues

Harriet Christie is my friend and the editor of the Klein Karoo Gazette where I write my recipe page.

Speaking of, the shareholder base is intriguing, and likely to be a real catalyst for share price appreciation in the future: Weiss (13 %, and 2 board directors), Karoo (25 %, 1 director), Laxey (10 %, 1 director), Principle (10 %), with smaller stakes belonging to the Oppenheims (management), Taube and Alpine Woods.

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I have followed your advice of paying up for confirmation by purchasing some Sirius Real Estate shares after the debt restructuring, although I think the convertible issue put small shareholders on a disadvantage compared to Karoo Investment Funds and fear there is more to come.

I agree that Karoo seems to be in the driving seat these days, and they seem focused on turning Sirius into a more conventional property opportunity — so an eventual sale / liquidation appears less likely now than I'd perhaps have hoped for before.

Karoo has basically won the war here against the activists (Weiss reported they've basically completed their exit the other day), and SRE's now a pretty regular German commercial property company (I'm sure they'll commence a dividend asap) which will be increasingly valued & compared to its peer group.

-- they are one of only two small companies with acreage in the Karoo basin in South Africa and their acreage is good.

Which all seems to suggest Karoo's now well & truly in the driving seat here.

Karoo buys 2 % of Sirius Real Estate $ SRE: LN http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail.html?announcementId=11715332 Stake nw at 26.7 %, cn't fully convert loan note in ’14 — wd breach 29.99 %

Finally, we've got Clearance Capital (Karoo Investment Funds), with a 24.6 % stake.

In my opinion, that doesn't appear to be true any longer here (if it ever was)-- management (& presumably Karoo) has a fairly limited disposal programme in mind.

Falcon were second mover in Karoo Basin South Africa and chose their acreage ahead of Shell.

Considering the size of this voting block, I suspect Karoo was instrumental in voting off the Weiss & Laxey directors.

Hilary has adopted and rescued many pets throughout her life, including her two dogs Karoo and Rumi, as well as cats and birds.

It is followed, in August, by the annual classical music, food and wine festival (Klein Karoo Klassique), a smaller but equally popular, festival.

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The town of Williston forms part of the three sister towns of the Karoo Highlands; here you can follow the trail of Cornelius de Waal, a giant of a man who earned a small wage carving gravestones years ago.

This little village, with its gravel roads and spring - fed water furrows, lies in the heart of the Sneeuberg Mountains; a picturesque town famed for its Owl House and Karoo hospitality (a cheese and brewery, a couple of excellent restaurants, various venues in which to overnight, and one of the country's best fossil collections).