One Big Rock
May 12th 2011 Stone Mountain
I spent most of today at Stone Mountain.
I first encountered it last Saturday for the laser show.
Stone Mountain is a granite monolith, the largest in the world.
This means the entire mountain is a single block of granite stuck in an area of rolling hills.
There are much larger granite blocks in the world (think of the Sierra Nevada) but they are all part of mountain ranges.
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