Encounters with Table Mountain and the history of Geology By Professor John Compton
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1. Mountains of the Mind -before European Arrival
Table Mountain is hard to avoid, a massive block of rock towering a kilometre above sea level. Many who
encountered this rocky massif, either from a distance or in climbing to the table top, thought enough about it
to record their impressions. This course outlines the chronology of how people experienced Table Mountain and
speculated on its origins. With writings that go back over five hundred years to the early Portuguese explorers, it
is possible to trace the evolution of how we feel and think about mountains, and our scientific understanding of
Earth. We went from fearing and loathing mountains, to embracing them as an escape back to nature and a source
of inspiration. We also increasingly took notice of the rocks that made up the landscape and started to propose
origin stories that gradually evolved into our current understanding of how Earth works, the science of geology.
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