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                                                                                                   Fig. 3.6: Wall in St George’s Street, Simon’s Town, near the Police Station. The building blocks consist of  brown to beige sandstone and pinkish siltstone and mudstone derived from the local Graafwater Formation.  These rocks do not form good-quality building stone, being easily weathered, leading to flaking of outside



                                                                                                           crusts and spalling of larger rock fragments. Camera lens cover measures 6 cm.
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