The artwork by Maggie Newman depicts a scene about 300 million years ago in the region of present day Emalaleni (Witbank). The scene is of the end of the Dwyka Ice Age with the retreating ice field that covered much of the Gondwana continent in the background. The ice field overlies reddish brown sandstone of the Waterberg. A glacier with fluvial outwash channels is shown retreating in a valley flanked by relatively resistant ridges of light-pinkish coloured Rooiberg felsite. The ridge in the left foreground displays glacial striations caused by hard rock debris at the base of a glacier (now melted) that scoured the bedrock due to the enormous weight and downslope movement of the glacier.
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