Mount Tabor, Israel

Mount Tabor is an isolated, dome-shaped hill in Israel's Lower Galilee, rising abruptly about 450 meters above the flat floor of the Jezreel Valley to a summit elevation of 575 meters, roughly eighteen kilometers west of the Sea of Galilee. Although it stands apart from the nearby Nazareth range and dominates the surrounding landscape in a way that has led some to mistake it for a volcanic cone, Mount Tabor is not volcanic, but a monadnock, an isolated hill of relatively resistant limestone and dolomite bedrock left standing as the softer surrounding rock wore down around it over a long span of time.