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- noun Plural form of
monadnock .
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Examples
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Sometimes called monadnocks or inselbergs, these isolated mountain outliers are formed in part by their caps of erosion-resistant quartzite.
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They are known as "monadnocks" from the mountain of that name in southern New Hampshire.
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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Similar to 45a, the rolling to hilly Northern Inner Piedmont has higher elevations, more rugged topography, and more monadnocks or mountain outliers than other areas of the Piedmont.
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Crestal elevations typically range from about 200 to 1,000 feet (61 - 305 m) but higher monadnocks occur and reach 2,000 feet (610m).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Local relief is typically 100 to 400 feet (30-121 m) but, on monadnocks, can be as much as 1,100 feet; in general, relief is markedly greater than in the Northern Outer Piedmont (45f) but less than in the Blue Ridge Mountains (66) to the west.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Elevations typically range from 200 to 1,000 feet (61-304 m) but higher elevations of up to 2,000 feet occur on scattered monadnocks.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The Northern Outer Piedmont (45f) is an irregular plain with low rounded ridges and shallow ravines; ranges of low hills are scattered across Ecoregion 45f but monadnocks are much rarer than in the Inner Piedmont (45e).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Ecoregion 45e is a dissected upland composed of hills, irregular plains, and isolated ridges and mountains; monadnocks are far more common in Ecoregion 45e than in the Northern Outer Piedmont (45f).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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The Piedmont (45) is largely wooded and consists of irregular plains, low rounded hills and ridges, shallow valleys, and scattered monadnocks.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Ecoregion 66c is a high, hilly plateau punctuated by scattered isolated knobs (monadnocks).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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