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The rock that stayed when everything around it wore away

Monadnocks, the highest ground in the east, and how it got measured.

Hazy mountain ridge with a communications tower rises above a patchwork valley of fields and trees
A monadnock is the hard core of a landscape whose softer country eroded away around it.Photo: Sauratown Mountain from Pilot Mountain (North Carolina) - panoramio ยท Wikimedia Commons

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