A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from...

of Sec. 21, Township 20, Range 1, West 5th Meridian. Big Rock is a glacial erratic that is part of a 930 km (580 mi) long, narrow (1.00 to 22.05 km (0...

scouring and scratching, glacial moraines, drumlins, valley cutting, and the deposition of till or tillites and glacial erratics. Successive glaciations...

about 250 km (150 miles) away in Wales, either through glaciation (glacial erratic theory) or through humans organizing their transportation. A summary...

period. The end of the Pleistocene corresponds with the end of the last glacial period and also with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archaeology...

Monoliths Moon rocks Stolen and missing Moon rocks Stones of Scotland Glacial erratic of Estonia of Rügen of Washington State, United States of Island County...

Pennsylvania, which was founded by Quaker settlers from Soulbury. A glacial erratic lies in a road in the parish. The stone originated in Derbyshire, and...

Glacial erratic boulders of Estonia are large boulders of rock which have been formed and moved into Estonia by glacial action during previous ice ages...

Trygław (IPA: [trɨg.wav]) is the largest glacial erratic in Poland and one of the largest in Europe. It is located in the town of Tychowo, in Gmina Tychowo...

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice...

these large boulders, the directions of the individual glacial streams may be determined. Such erratics on Rügen, which are made of crystalline and metamorphic...

border with the Incorporated Village of North Hills. The rock is a glacial erratic estimated to weigh 1,800 short tons (1,600 t) and has a 30-foot (9...

the south(west). Features: strandlines along the valleys east flank. Glacial erratic on the grounds of the University of Montana Strandlines can be seen...

Many glacial erratic boulders (often simply called glacial erratics) can be found in the Puget Sound region as far south as the Yelm area where the Puget...

last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of glacial isostasy (glacial isostatic...

small boulders that were transported within the ice, called glacial till or glacial erratic. Examples of U-shaped valleys are found in mountainous regions...

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, c...

Look up erratic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Erratic may refer to: Erratic, a project of music artist Jan Robbe Glacial erratic, a piece of rock...

rocks around it. Not all glacial erratics are balancing rocks; some are firmly seated on the ground. Some balancing erratics have come to be known as...

material upon which they are found. Patterns of glacial erratics hint at past glacial motions. Glacial moraines are formed by the deposition of material...

are glacial erratics that lie upon a surficial blanket of Late Wisconsin glacial till. The largest glacial erratic within the Foothills Erratics Train...

The Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) is the glacial period that occurred before the Last Glacial Period. The penultimate glacial period is officially unnamed...

camp he built in a well-drained woodland obscured within a cluster of glacial erratic boulders. Having entered the woods with almost no possessions, he set...

Wedgwood Rock is a glacial erratic (known to geologists as the Wedgwood Erratic) near the neighborhood of Wedgwood in Seattle, Washington. Its mineral...

U-shaped subsection of the Laurentia craton signifying the area of greatest glacial impact (scraping down to bare rock) creating the thin soils. The age of...

be built. In October 2017, at a depth of 10 m (33 ft), a 60 tonne glacial erratic was excavated at the construction site. It was pulled out using a specialized...

describe long sinuous ridges, which are now known to be deposits of fluvio-glacial material. The best-known example of such an eiscir is the Eiscir Riada...

landed in what is now Canada or Montana, and was transported as a glacial erratic to the Willamette Valley during the Missoula Floods at the end of the...

average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age. The current Holocene interglacial began at the...

are thus also more size sorted than glacial till is. The stone walls of New England contain many glacial erratics, rocks that were dragged by a glacier...