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              Figure 4.8 Great escarpments on passive margins.
              Source: Adapted from Summerfield (1991, 86)

                                                       Great  Western       Deccan
                                                     Escarpment Ghats       Plateau
                                                          Shoulder uplift
                                                                     Downwearing
                                                                                Denudation
                              Sediment            Backwearing
                               load
                                         Denudation
                       Sea
                      level








                                                    Flexural upwarp

              Figure 4.9 Conceptual model of passive margin denudation and shoulder uplift by flexural rebound based on the
              Western Ghats, India.
              Source: Adapted from Gunnell and Fleitout (2000)
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