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Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock in Stone Mountain, Georgia. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet (Foot (length)) (513 m (metre)) amsl (Above mean sea level) and 825 feet (251.5 m) above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain granite extends underground convert9mikm at its longest point into Gwinnett County. Numerous reference books and Georgia literature have dubbed Stone Mountain as ?the largest exposed piece of granite in the world". This misnomer is most likely a result of advertisement by granite companies and early park administration. In actuality, there are larger exposed granite landscapes throughout the world including the Sierra Nevada (Sierra Nevada (U.S.)) mountain range in California. Stone Mountain, though often called a pink granite dome, is actually a quartz monzonite rock when described in geologic terms and is therefore not technically granite. Stone Mountain is well-known not only for its geology, but also for the enormous bas-relief on its north face, the largest bas-relief in the world. Three figures of the Confederate States of America are carved (rock carving) there: Stonewall Jackson (Thomas J. Jackson), Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis.