SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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Lake Lanier
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fall line
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pole cat
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Stone Mt.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stone Mountain Park is Georgia’s #1 tourist site. It is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the largest piece of exposed granite in the world. Stone Mountain was once owned by the Venable Brothers and mined for its granite for global use.
Detailed explanation-2: -While not in the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area, Stone Mountain is the most prominent example of the monadnock ecosystem in the Atlanta area.
Detailed explanation-3: -The City of Stone Mountain, Georgia is nestled on the west side of Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park just sixteen miles from downtown Atlanta in DeKalb County. Founded in 1839, we celebrated our 175th anniversary as a city in 2014.
Detailed explanation-4: -FACT: The granite that forms Stone Mountain is approximately 300 million years old, but the mountain itself has only been exposed for approximately 15 million years.