Hills and ranges of weathered granite, including kopjes, granite domes and ridges rising from flat plains in Africa and Australia. A range belongs here when its cited article describes granite hills, granitic mountains or granite ridges. It excludes folded sedimentary ranges and fold mountains. The rounded boulders and domes form as joints in the granite weather below the soil and the soil is later stripped away.
Granite Hills and Kopjes
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Matobo National Park (Wikipedia)
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The Matobo National Park forms the core of the Matobo or Matopos Hills, an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe.
Taka Mountains (Wikipedia)
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The Taka Mountains are granitic geologic features in eastern Sudan near Kassala.
Domboshava (Wikipedia)
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It is located in an area of granite hills about 27 km (17 mi) north of Harare and is named after the large granite hills.
You Yangs (Wikipedia)
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The You Yangs are a series of granite ridges that rise up to 343 m (1,125 ft) above the flat and low-lying Werribee Plain in southern Victoria, Australia, approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) due west of the rural town of Little River, 55 km (34 mi) southwest of Melbourne CBD and 22 km (14 mi) north of Geelong.
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