monolith

     

A monolith is a geological feature such as a mountain, consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock place 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.

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  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gazes at Sugarloaf in Brazil.) Sugarloaf is one huge slab of rock rising 1300 ft. above its base; geologically, it's a granite one of these, from the Greek for "one stone"
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands before a tall sculpture in the Vigelund Sculpture Garden in Oslo, Norway.) The centerpiece of Oslo's Vigelund Sculpture Garden is a 57-foot tower depicting intertwined human figures reaching to the heavens; it's known as this, from Latin for made from a single stone
  • An obelisk is a type of this, from the Greek for "one stone"

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