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Figure 9.5.
(b) Elongate basin or bathtub, Childara Rocks, eastern Victoria Desert, South Australia.
(c) Irregular pan, Buccleugh, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Johannesburg and Pretoria, in South Africa and at the Ebaka Quarry in southern Cameroon, west
Africa (Twidale, 1988).
Northwestern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, receives only a moderate and unreliable rainfall,
and considerable attention has been devoted to water conservation. Over the past eighty years,
many small reservoirs have been excavated at the lower margins of the granite residuals.
Elsewhere, the weathered granite or grus has been stripped away, exposing the weathering front in
