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- Witwatersrand abstract "The Witwatersrand is a 56-kilometre-long north-facing scarp in the Gauteng Province of South Africa. It consists of a hard, erosion-resistant quartzite sedimentary rock, over which several north-flowing rivers form waterfalls, which account for the name “Witwatersrand”, meaning the “ridge of white waters” in Afrikaans. This east–west-running scarp can be traced with only one short gap from Bedfordview (about 10 km west of O.R. Tambo International Airport) in the east, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort, to Krugersdorp in the west (see the diagram bottom-left below).The scarp forms the northern edge of a 7- to 10-kilometre-wide plateau (or ridge) which rises about 200 m above the surrounding plains of the Highveld. The entire plateau-like structure is also often called the “Witwatersrand”. The plateau’s elevation above sea-level is between 1700–1800 m.The Witwatersrand plateau forms a continental divide with the run-off to the north draining into the Indian Ocean via the Crocodile and Limpopo Rivers, while the run-off to the south drains via the Vaal into the Orange River and ultimately into the Atlantic Ocean.The Witwatersrand lies within the province of Gauteng, formerly called the “PWV”, an acronym for Pretoria, "Witwatersrand" and Vereeniging. When used in this latter context, the term Witwatersrand refers to the entire Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area. This conurbation is oblong in shape and runs from Springs in the east to Randfontein and Carletonville in the west, as well as Soweto to the south. This area is also often colloquially referred to as “the Rand” or “Wits”.Because of the extraordinary quantities of gold that have been extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks, the South African currency was named the “Rand” in 1961.".
- Witwatersrand country South_Africa.
- Witwatersrand elevation "1913.0".
- Witwatersrand thumbnail Waterfall,_Witwatersrand_National_Botanical_Gardens.jpg?width=300.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageExternalLink johannesburg.asp.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Acronym.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Ocean.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Banded_iron_formation.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Barberton,_Mpumalanga.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Bitumen.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Borakalalo_Game_Reserve.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Braided_river.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Cadmium.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Carletonville.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Category:Escarpments.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Category:Johannesburg.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Gauteng.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_South_Africa.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mountain_ranges_of_South_Africa.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Cecil_John_Rhodes.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Conglomerate_(geology).
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Copper.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Crocodile_River_(Limpopo).
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Geography_of_South_Africa.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Great_Oxygenation_Event.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Greater_Johannesburg.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Iron_pyrite.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Johannesburg.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Kerogen.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink List_of_mountain_ranges_of_South_Africa.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Mercury_(element).
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Mpumalanga.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Mudstone.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink North_West_(South_African_province).
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink O.R._Tambo_International_Airport.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Orange_River.
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- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Paul_Kruger.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Pilanesberg.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Pilgrims_Rest,_Mpumalanga.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Plate_tectonics.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Pound_sterling.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Pretoria.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Pyrite.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Quartzite.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Randfontein.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Roodepoort.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Shale.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink South_Africa.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink South_African_Republic.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink South_African_rand.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Soweto.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Springs,_Gauteng.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Springs,_South_Africa.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Till.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Tillite.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Uraninite.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Uranium_sulfate.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Vaal_River.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Vereeniging.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Vredefort_crater.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Walter_Sisulu_National_Botanical_Garden.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Witwatersrand_Basin.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Witwatersrand_Gold_Rush.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Witwatersrand_basin.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe_Craton.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Zimbabwe_craton.
- Witwatersrand wikiPageWikiLink Zinc.