Why is the presence of granite critical for the formation of MT. Lico

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Aaden Lin

4 December, 15:31

Why is the presence of granite critical for the formation of MT. Lico

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Mount Lico is an inselberg (also monadnock) in the region of Mozambique in the African continent.

An inselberg is a type of geographic relief that it is characterized by an isolated hill in the middle of a huge plain or plateau.

Granite is a sort of rock that it is produced by cooling of the earth's crust magma and it is a very high resistance rock because of the structure it has and the different compunds that it is made of (feldspar, mica and others).

Granite is critical for the formation of inselbergs like Mount Lico because it make it resistant throught the years to the erosion process (eolic erosion, hydric erosion, etc.) more than the rest of the geographic relief surround it.

The most importance of these inselbergs is that most of them are still unchanged by human because of its hard access, and inside them remain a very variety of vegetation and also animals.