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(c)
Figure 8.4.
(c) Flares in cleft Yarwondutta Rock, northwestern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia.
(a)
Figure 8.5.
Subsurface flares exposed in excavations (a) at Quarry Hill, near Wudinna, northwestern Eyre
Peninsula, South Australia.
other areas such as the Cassia City of Rocks, southern Idaho (Anderson, 1931), in the western USA
(Mueller and Twidale, 1988 and see
Fig. 8.7c).
8.1.2
Origin
Several possible explanations can be suggested to account for flared slopes. The subaerial processes
cited as responsible for, or capable of shaping, the flares do not withstand close examination. Wave
