Posted on 11/30/2007 10:12:30 AM PST by cogitator
Half-size: click for full-size. Found this with a search initiated on the term "exposed pluton". Looking Glass Rock turned up in that search, so I searched more until I found this picture.
has a good map to put it in geographic perspective.
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Thanks, this is really pretty!
Found this with a search initiated on the term "exposed putón"
Thank you.
Been to Stone Mountain GA, Enchanted Rock (TX - near Austin)
I think Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain, and Kennesaw Mountain (all NW of Atlanta) are smaller plutons - not completely soil & dirt free - just isolated “lumps” of rock sticking up 400 - 800 above the terrain.
That picture had to be taken from the Blue Ridge Parkway. I saw that very scene this summer driving it. I believe Looking Glass Rock is part of Pisgah Nat. Forest. Great place to hike and explore btw.
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THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN
Allatoona had been evacuated and was taken possession of by Federal cavalry under Stoneman. The railroad was repaired to this place, which was made a secondary distributing point to the troops. The two hostile
lines kept stretching out their entrenchments until Johnston became convinced that his line was too thin to be maintained and he withdrew to a second line of works which had been prepared in advance.
The country about Marietta is interesting to the geologist because of many examples of residual hills or “monadnocks,” as they are called. Lost Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain and Pine Mountain, near Marietta, and Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, are famous monadnocks. From the greater resistance of their rocks or from their remoteness from active erosion or perhaps from both causes, these masses have weathered less than their neighbors and stand overlooking the wreckage of the former mountains of the Piedmont plateau. Their military advantage is obvious and Johnston utilized them in his new line of defense, which included Lost and Pine Mountains, a line about ten miles long. However, before his line was invested from the southeast, the Confederate commander abandoned his line, rightly judging it to be too long for his forces to support.
Another line was in waiting and this being smaller was well manned. The center rested on Kennesaw Mountain while the flanks in either direction protected Marietta, which was a manufacturing town (on the only railroad into Atlanta.)
Thx for posting. I always enjoy your geology pics.
Really enjoyed the fjord one the other day.
That place has special significance to me.
My nephew climbed the face of it. And,I enjoyed a couple day stay at the hotel where that shot was probably taken.
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