The Mokgware Pluton and Mahalapye Granite have been traced into the present map-area where they are overlain inconformably by Shoshong and Karoo strata. Migmatite, associated with the Mahalapye Granite, includes remnants of the early Lose Quarry Gneiss. It is proposed that the Shoshong Series(Cullen 1961) be given the status of formation and that the previous usage of stage means be dropped in favour of informal use as follows: limestone (top of succession), upper quartzite and shale, lower quartzite and shale, and greywacke( base of succession). In the map area this succession attains a thickness in the order of 1100 metres. On the basis relations observed in the Mokgware Hills map area the Shoshong formation appears to be an upward continuation of the Palapye group, with a local erosional unconformity between the Shoshong formation and the underlying Tswapong formation of the Palapye group.
