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Pinnacle
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A tall, slender, sharply pointed rock formation or mountain top, standing distinctly above its surroundings, typically the product of differential erosion stripping away softer rock from around a harder, more resistant core. Pinnacles occur both as isolated rock towers and as the topmost spires of jagged mountain ridgelines.
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