inselberg

This is called an inselberg in other parts of the world.

Thus, the term monadnock and inselberg may not perfectly match.

The Kwiambana ruins were built on and around a granite inselberg with two peaks.

Available records indicate that this beautiful massive dome shaped rocky inselberg is one out of only five in the world.

Hyden Rock is an granite inselberg, which consists of three domes.

Mount Conner is a flat-topped inselberg, shaped like a horseshoe.

It is considered to a classic example of an inselberg created by erosion of surrounding strata.

A major zinc deposit has been identified in the nearby Gamsberg inselberg, also set to be mined.

An inselberg or monadnock is a large rock formation that sits on its own, surrounded by flat lowlands.

They give rise to other types of inselberg, such as nubbins (or knolls) and castle koppies.

The younger layers of sedimentary rock eroded over millions of years leaving the inselberg that is seen today.

Uluru is an inselberg, literally "island mountain".

Mount Kintore is an inselberg in northwest South Australia.

The flared slopes are argued to have formed by the concentrated chemical weathering around the base of an inselberg by groundwater.

Wase Rock is a striking dome-shaped inselberg which juts out of the ground to an incredible height of 450 meters.

Monadnock (or inselberg)

The hill is an inselberg of Carboniferous-Permian origins, rising abruptly from the younger Quaternary coastal plain.

One can speculate that in regions such as Madagascar, there might still be unidentified species that are confined to a single rocky outcrop or an inselberg.

Piedra del Cocuy is an inselberg of igneous formation from the Precambrian period of around 400 m above the terrain.

The village takes its name (translatable into English as "below the rock") from an inselberg called the "Devil's Rock", which is located on an adjacent hill.

The area which makes up Mount Sylvester is known as an Inselberg, a rock tower produced by chemical weathering and further modified by glaciation.

The Mudanda Rock is a 1.6 km inselberg of stratified rock that acts as a water catchment that supplies a natural dam below.

However, the term inselberg has since been used to describe a broader geography and range of rock features, leading to confusion about the precise definition of the term.

The term was adopted by early settlers of southern New Hampshire and later by American geologists as an alternative term for an inselberg or isolated mountain.