Saturday, Sep 01, 2012 at 19:49
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Augustus_National_Park -
Mount Augustus is an inselberg that stands 1106 m above sea level, or approximately 860 m above the surrounding plain, and covers an area of 4,795 ha. It has a central ridge which is almost 8 km long.
Mount Augustus is widely claimed in tourist promotional and
information literature as the “world's largest monolith”, but the claim does not originate from the geological literature, nor is substantiated by any other scholarly research.
Mt. Augustus is more than twice the size of Uluru. Unlike Uluru, which is a monolith and, in general, devoid of plant growth, Mt. Augustus is a monocline (an asymmetrical anticline, source W.A. Department of Environment and Conservation) and has plant growth on it.
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