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A monolith is a geological or technological feature such as a Mountain , consisting of a single massive Stone or rock. Erosion usually exposes these formations, which are most often made of very hard and solid Metamorphic Rock . A common cultural reference is to the Monolith from the book and film '''' by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick . These fictional monoliths are a group of probes built by an extraterrestrial civilizational race. Their purpose in the story is to aid in the intellectual evolution of species: a monolith utilised at the dawn of humanity was a major reason for accelerating and directing the intellectual evolution of humans to their current level of development. The word derives from the Latin word ''monolithus'' from the Greek word μονόλιϑος (''monolithos''), derived from μόνος ("one" or "lonely") and λίϑος ("stone"). GEOLOGICAL MONOLITHS The three largest on Earth are currently: # Mount Augustus , in Australia # La Peña De Bernal , in Mexico # Stone Mountain , in Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain , a suburb of Atlanta , Georgia , USA Note: For many years, Uluru/Ayers Rock was listed in record books as the world's largest monolith. This is wrong on two counts. Uluru is not a monolith at all, but even if it were, Mt Augustus is about 2.5 times its size. Others include: North America
Europe
Africa Asia Australia
South America Antarctica Many of these have legends attached. ARTIFICIAL MONOLITHS
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