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102: 57: 19: 76:. Their appearance may be due to a combination of erosion by underground rainwater and then by subsequent weathering after they were exposed. Most of the pillars emerge without a break from the underlying granite. Their structural base may be of 123: 214: 344: 398: 87:
They obtained their name because a traveller in a coach saw the formation in the distance. He asked how a farmer could produce so much
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outcrop. They are made of a pink, massive, coarsely equigranular rock consisting mostly of
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The overhanging dome formation is approximately 8 metres (26 ft) high.
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inselberg
Mortana
Streaky Bay
Port Kenny
Eyre Peninsula
South Australia

granite
quartz
orthoclase
orthogonal
sheet jointing
hay
South Australian Heritage Register

"Murphy's Haystacks"
"Granite outcrops: A collective ecosystem"
Twidale, C. R.
"Murphy Haystacks, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia"
"Prioritising rock-holes of Aboriginal and ecological significance in the Gawler Ranges"
"Murphys Haystacks in SA"
"Murphy's Haystacks, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia"
cite web
link
"Murphy's Haystacks Geological Site"
District Council of Streaky Bay webpage
Murphy's Haystacks - Ancient Granite Rock
Murphy's Haystacks YouTube
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