The + trending These structures keep popping up around the world
El 2021 could not begin without talking about the monoliths. After everything that happened last year with these metallic structures in various countries, including Colombia, One of these, whose size is four meters high, has reappeared in Toronto, Canada, according to some local media.
However, this is not the first to appear in this country. Some had previously been observed in Vancouver and Winnipeg. However, this has not caused much grace among the inhabitants, since it has caused some curious people to come to be photographed with this structure, which can lead people to break the biosecurity regulations that have been established to stop the expansion. of covid-19.
A monolith is a large block of rock of homogeneous composition. The word monolith comes from the Greek and means “a single stone”, specifically like this: “monkey” is one and “lithos” is stone. This term is used to refer to both monoliths of natural origin, which include those geomorphological features, very similar to a mountain. Likewise, monoliths are also called those that are made by man, such as those that have been extracted from quarries since ancient times.
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As for the definition given by the Royal Spanish Academy to the word monolith, it is found as: “One-piece stone monument”.
During the last months of 2020, there were several monoliths that appeared in different countries on different continents. At the moment, about six monoliths have been counted: in the State of Utah in the United States; another in Romania in the city of PiatraNeamt; one more on the central coast of California in the United States; another in the Konduk nature reserve in Russia; in the nature reserve of the province of Frisia, north of the Netherlands and one more in Colombia in Chia, Cundinamarca.
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