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(a)
(b)
Figure 8.4.
(a) Flares developed on sidewall of Ucontitchie Hill, northwestern Eyre Peninsula, South
Australia, and also on large residual boulder. (b) Boulders with flared sidewalls near Benbarber
Corner, Port Kenny, northwestern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
plains (Figs 6.20 and 8.5) . Moreover ( Fig. 8.6) , there is some suggestion that the water-table is
lower in the scarp-foot zone.
Though flared slopes in granite are apparently not, or only faintly, developed in some areas,
even at sites that appear to be suitable, they have been noted in or described from several parts of
the world, in cold and warm, arid and humid climates, in interior and coastal areas, lowlands and
uplands ( Fig. 8.7) , and on several rock types, though all are massive (see Chapter 12). They are,
however, best and most frequently developed on granitic rocks in shield areas in southern
Australia, though they also occur in profusion, well-developed, albeit at a minor scale, in certain
 
 
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