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To: gorush
I had to look up where Baraboo is...Wisconsin. Learn something new every day.

I had to look up its meaning: it's a monadnock
monadnock: an isolated hill or ridge or erosion-resistant rock rising above a peneplain.

peneplain: In geomorphology and geology a peneplain is a low-relief non-constructional plain. This is the definition in the broadest of terms, albeit with frequency the usage of peneplain is meant to imply the representation of a near-final (or penultimate) stage of fluvial erosion during times of extended tectonic stability.

Lol. Whaaaat?

3 posted on 02/17/2016 1:32:14 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

Baraboo means monadnock? I have heard many theories while growing up there, the most popular being a bastardization of a French word, but who knows?


5 posted on 02/17/2016 1:53:39 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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