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TAR 22 Ep 7 "Be Safe and Don't Hit a Cow"
Chateau d If:
Matlapaneng ?
apskip:
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--- Quote from: apskip on March 25, 2013, 03:42:18 PM ---The Boteti River runs through Maun and on into the Okavango Delta. On the other side of the Delta, the flows out consolidate from 3 prongs into one Okavango River. I expect that the water skiing was on the Boteti River and not the Okavango River.
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Then you would be wrong. :o
Here is the location of the crocodile water skiing: Thamalakane River, 8 miles northeast of Maun
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Chateau,
I guess where the Thalamakane flows and when it becomes the Boteti River is open to some differences depending on your source. Here is one I have discovered after additional research on this subject:
Great Places Physical Geography by Dr. Cecil Keen July 2007
2 parallel faults now control the direction in which the Okavango River enters the Kalahari Basin, in an area called the Panhandle. Other faults also direct its exit from the Delta, flowing south into the ocean of sand. As the Okavango flows over the Gomare Fault, a continuation of the Great Rift Valley of east Africa, that runs southwest to northeast, the slope of the land breaks it up into numerous channels, which fan outwards over the Delta. These are blocked by 2 southern faults, the Kunyere and the Thalamakane, which redirect the Delta's myriad channels. The Thalamakane Fault acts as a 150-mile-long natural dam: Here the channels abruptly change direction and join to form one river, the Boteti, which flows eastwards through a break in the fault towards the Makgadikgadi Pan. A small channel, the Nghabe River, continues southwest toward Lake Ngami, serving as both inlet and outlet depending on the strength and direction of the annual floods.
Unfortunately, Dr. Green does not identify precisely where the change from the Thalamakane Fault to the Boteti river happens.
I have also discovered sources which recognize a Thalamakane River (not mentioned at all by Dr. Green). One is tourist literature from the Thalamakane Tourist Resort. It states "This metropolis (Maun) is now spread out along the wide banks of the timeless Thamalakane River. It also shows photos of canoes being poled.
DrRox:
apskip......I suspect that you have a mis-typed word.
--- Quote from: apskip on March 25, 2013, 10:48:16 PM ---Unfortunately, Dr. Green does not identify precisely where the change from the Thalamakane Fault River to the Boteti River happens.
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I can tell you after over 40 years professional experience, that faults do not morph/transform into rivers. They are two completely different landforms. In this case, the Thalamakane River follows the Thalamakane fault. This is because the land on one side of the fault is upthrust, creating a natural dam and redirecting the flow of the river.
DrRox:
Last episode there was a question of the right hand drive vehicles that the teams used, since it was brought up that Botswana drives on the right. Photos from this episode completely disspell that notion. It is very obvious that people drive on the left in Botswana.
apskip:
--- Quote from: DrRox on March 25, 2013, 11:12:57 PM ---apskip......I suspect that you have a mis-typed word.
--- Quote from: apskip on March 25, 2013, 10:48:16 PM ---Unfortunately, Dr. Green does not identify precisely where the change from the Thalamakane Fault River to the Boteti River happens.
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I can tell you after over 40 years professional experience, that faults do not morph/transform into rivers. They are two completely different landforms. In this case, the Thalamakane River follows the Thalamakane fault. This is because the land on one side of the fault is upthrust, creating a natural dam and redirecting the flow of the river.
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Dr. Rox, I repeat the quote from Dr. Cecil Keen:
The Thalamakane Fault acts as a 150-mile-long natural dam: Here the channels abruptly change direction and join to form one river, the Boteti.
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