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(g)
Figure 1.3.
(g) Fluting at Pic Boby, Andringitra syenitic massif, Madagascar.
Geomorphologie (Bremer and Jennings, 1978). Granite forms are discussed in many general
textbooks of geomorphology, as well as in regional accounts and in monographs concerned with
particular aspects of geomorphology. For example, granite forms feature prominently in Worth's
(1953) Dartmoor essay and in King's perceptive account of the landscapes of southern Africa, as
well as in Thomas' texts (1974, 1994), dealing with tropical geomorphology, in Büdel's (1977)
analysis of climatic geomorphology, and in Ollier's treatise (1969) on weathering. They are promi-
nent in monographs concerned with structural landforms as, for example, those published by Birot
(1958), by Twidale (1971, 1982) and by Ritchot (1975), as well as in the analysis of the shield lands
due to various French authors and edited by Godard, Lagasquie and Lageat (1994).
There are several regional accounts and published theses of areas that are largely granitic.
Granite exposures in various parts of Europe have stimulated many investigations and publica-
tions. As becomes clear in the following chapters, it is no accident that several characteristic minor
granite forms were first described in the scientific literature as a result of experience in European
uplands. More recently Pedraza, Sanz and Martín (1989) have provided a description of the gran-
ite forms of La Pedriza, in central Spain, and Roqué and Pallí (1991) have carried out detailed
studies of the granite morphology of the Catalonian Costa Brava. Klaer's (1956) penetrating
accounts of the granite landforms of Corsica are justifiably well-known, and Lagasquie (1978)
has published a detailed and perceptive analysis of granite forms in parts of the Pyrenees. And
despite an understandable focus on glacial and periglacial or nival geomorphology, Scandinavian
workers have followed a long-standing tradition (Hult, 1873), with several distinguished granite
studies. French, British and German investigators have shared this interest in cold lands Godard,
Lagasquie and Lageat (1994), but have also made signal contributions to the study of granite in the
tropics (Petit, 1971; Branner, 1896; Choubert, 1974).
Many postgraduate theses are based on granite morphology. For instance, in the Iberian
Peninsula, the Sierra Guadarrama has provided materials for doctoral theses such as those due to
Centeno (1987) and Sanz (1988); the Costa Brava has been investigated by Roqué (1993) the
Galician massifs by Vidal Romaní (1983) and Uña Álvarez (1986), and northern Portugal by
Coudé Gaussen (1981). Similarly, Bourne's (1974) thesis was concerned with the granite forms of
northwestern Eyre Peninsula; and Campbell's (1990) Ph.D. dissertation was based on the Gawler
Ranges (South Australia) which, though developed in volcanic dacite and rhyolite, is germane to
granite landform studies.
