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Monolith
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A monolith is a geological feature such as a mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are most often made of very hard and solid metamorphic or sedimentary rock.
The word derives from the Latin word monolithus from the Greek word μονόλιϑος (monolithos), derived from μόνος ("one" or "single") and λίϑος ("stone").
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The three largest on Earth are:
- Mount Augustus, in Western Australia - 860m
- La Peña de Bernal, in Mexico
- Stone Mountain, in Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Others include:
- Beacon Rock, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, United States
- Bottleneck Peak and Moon, Sids Mountain, Utah, United States
- Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, United States
- El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California, United States
- Enchanted Rock, Llano County, Texas, United States
- Haystack Rock, Clatsop County, Oregon, United States
- Looking Glass Rock, Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States
- Peña de Bernal, Querétaro, Mexico
- Petroforms, Manitoba, Canada, Wisconsin, USA
- Stawamus Chief, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
- Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
- Frau Holle Stone, near Fulda, Germany
- Humber Stone, Humberstone, near Leicester, England.
- King Arthur's Stone (Cornwall)
- Logan Stone (Trereen, Cornwall)
- Odin Stone (Stenhouse, Orkney; destroyed in 1814)
- Peñon de Ifach Calpe, Spain
- Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- Bald Rock, near Tenterfield, New South Wales
- Mount Coolum, Queensland
- Mount Wudinna, near Wudinna, South Australia
- Kokerbin Rock, Western Australia
- Uluru, despite some beliefs, is a monolith. Also known as Ayers Rock, Uluru is one of the most famous landmarks in Australia.
Many of these have legends attached.
A structure which has been excavated as a unit from a surrounding matrix or outcropping of rock.[1]
- Top stone on the Mausoleum of Theodoric, Ravenna
- Aztec calendar "Stone of the Sun"
- Stonehenge contains several
- Ellora Caves - UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Rune stones
- Stone circle
- Standing stones
- Stelae
- Obelisks - see this article for a list
- Ogham Stone, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
- Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury, Wiltshire, England
- Manzanar National Historic Landmark, USA
- Vijayanagara Empire#Architecture medieval South Indian carved examples
- Megalith
- Monolithic architecture
- Monadnock (or inselberg)
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- Regarding Uluru/Ayers Rock and earlier representations of it as the largest monolith -