Meaning of inselberg | Babel Free

Definitions

A monadnock (isolated mountain).

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“Click: forest elephant, stern and alert. Click: humpback whale, breaching skyward like⟳ a frisky trout. Click: Gaboon viper, its big coppery head so close⟳ to the lens you could almost feel⟳ the flick of its tongue. Click: granite inselberg, like⟳ a great igneous gumdrop, protruding above forest canopy. Click: bulge-eyed hippopotamus, almost unrecognizably strange and serene, riding a wave⟳ along the Atlantic coast.”

“From the north, the road into Nigeria’s purpose-built capital is strewn with inselbergs, vast monolithic stone outcrops that rise⟳ abruptly out of the lush savannah. At the centre of the country, the city became the seat of government in 1991 after Lagos had become⟳ too crowded and chaotic.”

“Ground penetrating radar can map the foundation of Gulem menhir and establish⟳ its identity either as a natural geological oddity, a natural inselberg or a manmade menhir.”

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