Gornaya Shoria megaliths

[3] Fringe articles have claimed these rock formations are gigantic prehistoric man-made blocks, or megaliths.

[4] Geologic mapping of ridgecrests and summit of Mount Kuylyum by geologists, which was conducted in the late 1990s, identified these rock formations as denudated prepared ridges (Russian: Денудационные отпрепарированные гребни и гряды), which are ridges created by the natural and differential erosion of local bedrock.

[6][4] Both tectonic forces acting on deeply buried bedrock and pressure release that occurs within nearsurface bedrock as it is uplifted and eroded commonly form rectangular, block-like, rock formations that consist of jointed rock.

[7] Tectonic forces acting on deeply buried massive bedrock, such as granite, and pressure release as this bedrock is uncovered by erosion, can create sets of joints which are known as orthogonal joint sets, that intersect at nearly 90 degrees.

These bedrock blocks commonly have rounded corners and are separated from each other by cracks of variable size.