Have you ever seen a rock larger than a building? Here in India, we have lots of them. The largest natural monolith in South Asia is found in Karnataka. It’s locally known as Savandurga hill.
Hills like these served as the backdrop for films like "Sholay" & "The Passage to India".
There are many more such hills in South India, trekkers & adventurers from around the world come here to climb them.
These hills are super old, like 2.5 billion years old! they are made up of granite (granite is a volcanic igneous rock formed due to the cooling of magma below the ground). They are called "Closepet Granites" and they constitute the basement of the Dharwar Craton (a craton is an old piece of the continental crust).
Want to see for yourself?
Here are the coordinates 12°55'14.12"N 77°17'39.96"E
(just paste it in the Google Earth search bar).
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