Liberal Arts Blog — Geology (Part II): Monoliths of the USA (El Capitan, Devil’s Tower, Stone Mountain)

Last time, Sugarloaf Mountain and Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro and Giulin in China. Today, three striking monoliths in the USA. Have you been to any one of the three? Have you climbed one? Do you have strong feelings on the removal of the carving of Confederate leaders Davis, Lee, and Jackson from Stone Mountain? Is there a simple way to keep straight the differences between buttes, bluffs, monadnocks, monoliths, and inselbergs? Is there any reason to bother? Have you been to Zuma rock in Nigeria? Sigiriya rock in Sri Lanka? Ben Amera in Mauritania? Uluru in Australia? Torres del Paine in Chile? How about the Rock of Gibraltar? Memories? Experts — please chime in. Correct, elaborate, elucidate. <a href="https://john-muresianu.medium.com/liberal-arts-blog-geology-part-ii-monoliths-of-the-usa-el-capitan-devils-tower-stone-11c59d84ad66">Website</a>