Talk:Great Escarpment, Southern Africa

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Geological origin[edit]

Is it permissible to import a section (wholesale) from one article in Wikipedia to another? The "Geological origin" of the Drakensberg article gives a very nice overview of how the whole of the escarpment originated, not just in the Drakensberg region. It could well, and appropriately, be placed here too.Jkoeslag (talk) 09:14, 12 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is indeed permissible to do so, if the origin is acknowledged. This has now been done. A new section on the "Appearance" of the Great Escarpment has been added, the first part of which also originates from the Drakensberg article. Oggmus (talk) 07:00, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the content on the origin is somewhat out-dated. In Encyclopedia of Geomorphology (2004) one can read there there are two theories on its origin, one is that it is an eroded fault (resulting from rifting) and the second is that it is is an eroded downwarped surface (downwarp would also then be linked to rifting somehow). Lappspira (talk) 17:12, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Units of measurement for elevation[edit]

This article is inconsistent in its choice of units of elevation; in some cases it is meters and miles; in others it is meters and feet. I'm a US resident, so I am most familiar with the use of meters and feet for elevation. Which units of elevation should be used in this article, and in Wikipedia articles in general? — Wdfarmer (talk) 10:14, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

South Africa uses the metric system, so metres (and if needed km) would be the most appropriate primary units of measurement M4yj40 (talk) 11:22, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]