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The monolith occurs as monument or natural feature such as the mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock. Erosion usually exposes these formations, which are virtually all typically processed of super protective & firm metamorphic rock.

a most common ethnic information is to the Monolith from either the book & film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. These fictitious monoliths come the class action of artifacts built by an alien civilization. Their purpose in a story is to help in the development of mintage: the monolith utilised at the dawn of humanity was a major understanding for accelerating & directing the evolution of man to its todays level of development.

A word derives from either a Latin word monolithus from a Greek word μονόλιϑος (monolithos), derived from μόνος ("one" or even "lonely") & λίϑος ("stone").

Mount Augustus is the largest monolith in the world.

Natural monoliths

A threesome big come:

  • Mount Augustus, in Australia
  • La Pena de Bernal, in Mexico
  • Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Others include:

    North America

    Bottleneck Peak and Moon, Sids Mountain, Utah Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon Stawamus Chief, Squamish, British_Columbia, Canada Enchanted Rock, Llano County, Texas

    Europe

    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 inside 1814) Rock of Gibraltar

    Australia

    Mount Coolum, Queensland, Australia

    South America

    Towers of Paine, Chile

    Antarctica

    Scullin monolith

    Numbers of one use at times legends bound.

    Manmade monoliths

    Obelisks - see this article for the list Ogham Stone, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury, Wiltshire, England Merlin Stone, Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire, England Manzanar National Historic Landmark, USA

    • Cinebooks Database - Monolith
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    IMDb - Monolith (1993)
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