Eight facts on the Barberton makhonjwa mountains
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Makhonjwa Mountains.
1 The Makhonjwa Mountains, also known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt or Barberton Mountain Land, is a range of small mountains and hills that covers an area of 120 by 60 kilometres (75 by 37 mi), about 80% in Mpumalanga, a province of South Africa, and the remainder in neighbouring Swaziland.
1 It consists of the oldest volcanic and sedimentary rocks which are about 3.6 to 3.25 billion years old.
2 These are one of the first landmasses to come out of the ocean and project some of the Earth's oldest surface rocks.
3 This range of hills also consists of some gold deposits.
4 It also consists of unusual ultramafic volcanic rock called komatiites. This rock is named after the river called Komati.
5 This region is popularly known as " Genesis of life" as it gave an insight about the hostile nature of the Precambrian environment.
6 There is evidence about the largest impact event that took place near the area due to a terrestrial meteor which took place before 3.26 billion years.
7 The elevation of this ranges reaches up to 5900 feet, i.e about 1800 m.
8 This location became a world heritage site in 2018.