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Image number: 1975
Feature : granite domes and tors
Grouping : structural relief
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 1995
Locality : Dombo Shawa
Country : Zimbabwe
Region - tribe : Vicinity of Harare
Physiographic region : Kalahari sand plateau
Notice : Granite rocks often outcrop in the form of domes. Granite intrusions in the roof of a batholith have often this form. Tors are often weathered exfoliation slabs. The mountain at the horizon is composed of several dome structures.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1995    Image 1975.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"