Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Stone Mountain


Stone Mountain is granite dome is Georgia. It measures about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide.
Stone Mountain is the result of the upwelling magma from within the earth's crust.
The elevatation of Stone Mountain is 1,683 feet and it is more than 5 miles in circumference.
Three figures of the Confederate states of Amercia are carved in the mountain Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The carving was begun by Gutzon Borglum but was finished by Walter Kirtland.

by Juwan B. and Tanner S.

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