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List Of Inselbergs
An inselberg (or monadnock) is an isolated hill, knob, ridge, outcrop, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. The following is a list of notable inselbergs worldwide. Africa ;Cameroon * Ngog Lituba in the Sanaga-Maritime Department ;Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) * Mont Niénokoué in Taï National Park ;Kenya * Sergoit Hill ;Madagascar * Mont Angavokely * Pic Boby, part of the Andringitra Massif ;Malawi * Mulanje Massif ;Mali * Hand of Fatima ;Mozambique * Mount ChiperonePortik, Daniel & Travers, Scott & Bauer, A. & Branch, William. (2013). ''A new species of Lygodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) endemic to Mount Namuli, an isolated ‘sky island’ of northern Mozambique''. Zootaxa. 3710. 415–435. 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.5.2. * Mount Inago * Mount Mabu * Mount Namuli * Serra Jeci * Serra Mecula * Mount Lico ;Nigeria * Wase Rock * Zuma Rock ;Tunisia * Jugurtha Tableland ;Zimbabwe * Castle Beacon in the Bvu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, an Afrikaans word ("little head") from the Dutch diminutive word ''kopje''. If the inselberg is dome-shaped and formed from granite or gneiss, it can also be called a bornhardt, though not all bornhardts are inselbergs. An inselberg results when a body of rock resistant to erosion, such as granite, occurring within a body of softer rocks, is exposed by differential erosion and lowering of the surrounding landscape. Etymology Inselberg The word ''inselberg'' is a loan word from German, and means "island mountain". The term was coined in 1900 by geologist Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946) to describe the abundance of such features found in eastern Africa. At that time, the term applied only to arid landscape features. However, it has sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
