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Geological Monoliths of the World Posters
for social studies and geography educators, and home schoolers.
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social studies > geography > mountains posters pg 1 | 2 | Seven Summits | MONOLITHS | volcanoes < geology < science
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Monoliths are geological formations that consist of single massive stone or rock, usually solid metamorphc or igneous rock are called monoliths [Gr. mono+lithos = single stone) The Rock of Gibralter is a monolith.
Other names for geological monolithic features are ‘stacks’ - “steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, isolated by erosion”; monadnock, inselberg, and bornhardt - an “isolated hill, knob, ridge, outcrop, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain”, volcanic plug.
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Brandberg is the highest point in Namibia and a spiritual site for the San (Bushman) tribes.
The names for the monolith describe its glowing appearance at sunset: Brandberg (German, Dutch, and Afrikaans) meaning Fire Mountain. Daures is the Damara for “burning mountains”.
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El Capitan, a 3,000 foot granite monolith along its tallest face, is located in Yosemite National Park, California. It is one of the world's favorite challenges for rock climbers.
Half Dome is another monolith in Yosemite and is featured with John Muir and the California Condor on the California state quarter. It is also included in the logos of the Sierra Club and The North Face corporation.
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Devils Tower, a monolithic volcanic neck or igneous intrusion in the Black Hills in north eastern Wyoming, is an iconic image from the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Local Native American tribes have similar creation stories about the landmark - seven little girls are out picking berries when giant bears begin to chase them, the Great Spirit saves them by raising the ground beneath their feet, the bears try to climb the rock and leave the vertical grooves.
It was the first declared national monument in the US.
FYI - Devils is the correct spelling, with out the '.
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A monadnock or inselberg is an “isolated hill, knob, ridge, outcrop, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.”
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The Rock of Gibralter, a limestone monolithic promontory, is located at the Strait of Gibralter where the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea connect.
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Haystack Rock is a sea stack at Cannon Beach, Oregon. Specifically a stack is a “geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, isolated by erosion” - wind, time, and water.
Ball's Pyramid, at 1844 feet, is the world's tallest volcanic stack.
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Rock of Monoco, a 459 foot tall monolith on the Mediterranean coast of the Principality of Monaco, is the site of the oldest quarter of the city.
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Penyal d'Ifach, on the Spanish coast, is a massive limestone outcrop known to the Phoenicians as the Northern Rock, to distinguish it from its southern counterpart, the Rock of Gibraltar.
Penyal is home to rare plants, over 300 species of animals, and a nesting site for colonies of sea birds.
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Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, a metamorphic quartzite rock rising 2,421 feet above sea level and one of the most distinctive natural features in the state, fulfills the description of a monadnock.
It is a remnant of the ancient chain of Sauratown Mountains that were named after the Saura tribe of Native Americans.
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Scotts Bluff, in Nebraska, is the most prominent feature in the Scotts Bluff National Monument. The park includes more rock formations - Crown, Dome, Eagle, Saddle, and Sentinel, Rocks.
The formation was an important landmark on the Oregon and Mormon Trails, indicating the Great Plains topography was giving way to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
FYI ~ The bluff was named after fur trapper Hiram Scott, who died nearby in 1828.
Chimney Rock, Courthouse & Jail Rocks are also located in western Nebraska.
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Sigiriya, or Lion Rock, in Sri Lanka, is an example of a monolithic plug of an extinct volcano.
Sigiriya was been rock fortress and palace, and a Buddhist monastery. Today Sigiriya and the surrounding network of gardens and reservoirs, and ancient frescos, is a popular tourist destination.
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Stone Mountain, a quartz monzonite dome monadnock, in the US state of Georgia has an elevation of 1,686 feet.
The site is well know for the large bas-relief sculpture of the Confederate Civil War leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
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Sugar Loaf Mountain is one of several monolithic granite and quartz formations that rise from the water's edge in and near Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Sugar Loaf is 1,299 feet high with the statue Christ the Redeemer at the top.
Sugar Loaf is specifically a bornhardt.
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Scotland's Suilven rises almost vertically as an inselberg, an “island-mountain”, in a wilderness landscape of moorland, bogs and lochans known as Inverpolly National Nature Reserve.
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Uluru, a sandstone monolith standing 348 meters high, is Australia's more recognized natural icon.
Kata Tjuta is a group of large domed rock formations (bornhardts, commonly known as “sugar loaf”) just west of Ulura.
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