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                                                                                                Fig. 3.17: Closely-spaced boreholes in the face of the abandoned Lake View Quarry in quartzitic  sandstone of the Peninsula Formation. These were drilled for feather-wedging of sandstone blocks  using a hammer and chisel. Note the presence of cross-bedding and a large grey mudstone clast next
                                                                                                        to hammer, possibly derived from the bank of an ancient river at the time of sedimentation.
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