The mound has dimensions of  feet in height  feet  meters long and  feet  meters wide Monks Mound base covers about  acres and has a volume of about  cubic feet  cubic meters and consists of more than  billion pounds of nonlocal soil types A few articles on Cahokia Mounds httpwwwworldpyramidscomatrusamonkmoundhtml httpwwwfreewebscomhistoryofmonksmoundindexhtm httpwwwbibliotecapleyadesnetarqueologiamonksmoundhtm