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(d)

(c)

Figure 12.10. (c) Subsurface initiation of flares at City of Rocks, exposed in a shallow gully (Courtesy

of Mueller). (d) A street with flared sidewalls developed in rhyolitic tuff, City of Rocks,
New Mexico (Courtesy of Mueller).

(a)

Figure 12.11. (a) Large rock basins.

12.3 CLIMATIC ZONALITY AND AZONALITY

Several well-known granite forms like bornhardts, boulders and basins are climatically azonal.
They are shaped by different, climatically-driven processes, but the end results are the same or
similar: convergent forms.