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LOCATION
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Address Adelaide-Mannum Road, near PALMER
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Mid Murray Council
Polygon Type P - parcel (from DCDB)
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Granite Boulders Area Geological Site
Registered Name Granite Boulders area
Significance This remarkable landscape is the result of the weathering process of granite. With the lowering of the land surface the weathered rock is removed and massive core stones remain strewn over the landscape as boulders and tors. Various features associated with exposed granites are well displayed here including tors, exfoliation of surface-hardened layers, cavernous weathering (tafoni) and the development of granulated products of disintegration of the granites (grus). The tor development here is better and more extensive than in most areas of South Australia. (Adapted from HB Assessment Report)
Subject Index Landscape area - Geological Site; Landscape area - Natural Landscape
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 04-MAR-1993
REFERENCE
LGA Mid Murray
State Heritage ID 13197
Heritage Number 16315
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 6230/76 D120933 A201,CT 6230/75 D120933 A200

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