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How can you tell how far a rock or boulder has been moved by a glacier?
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What is a rock that is moved by a glacier?
It is called a glacial erratic.
Is a smooth boulder considered a rock?
Sure, a boulder is a large rock.
What is the name of the glacier that has frozen to bedrock?
The name of a glacier that has frozen to bedrock is rock glacier. A rock glacier is formed by angular blocks of frozen rock that form in the valley of glaciers.
Which two spheres interact when a glacier erodes a rock?
Which two spheres interact when a glacier erodes rock
Is a glacier called a rock?
A glacier is a mass of frozen water, therefore it cannot be considered a rock.
Action of rock being placed somewhere else?
An erratic boulder is a rock that has been moved and left in position as the glacier recedes.
What is a rock that is moved by a glacier?
It is called a glacial erratic.
What famous boulder split in two when it was moved in 1774?
Plymouth Rock.
How could a large rock be in an area surrounded by nothing?
An isolated large boulder (known as an 'erratic boulder') standing in the open, was left there by a glacier, after the ice retreated at the end of an ice age.. They are known as an 'erratic'.
Is a smooth boulder considered a rock?
Sure, a boulder is a large rock.
What has the author Rock Boulder written?
Rock Boulder has written: 'Generic literature'
What is a homophone for a large rock?
A homophone for a large rock is boulder.
What is glaciers deposition?
It's glacial deposition not glacier deposition.Glacial deposition:An advancing ice sheet carries an abundance of rock that was plucked from the underlying bedrock; only a small amount is carried on the surface from mass wasting. The rock/sediment load of alpine glaciers, on the other hand, comes mostly from rocks that have fallen onto the glacier from the valley walls. The various unsorted rock debris and sediment that is carried or later deposited by a glacier is called till. Till particles typically range from clay-sized to boulder-sized but can sometimes weigh up to thousands of tons. Boulders that have been carried a considerable distance and then deposited by a glacier are called erratics.Erratics can be a key to determining the direction of movement if the original source of the boulder can be located.
What is the name of the glacier that has frozen to bedrock?
The name of a glacier that has frozen to bedrock is rock glacier. A rock glacier is formed by angular blocks of frozen rock that form in the valley of glaciers.
How are a moraine and an erratic different?
A moraine is a pile of rocks and dirt deposited in a heap, usually at the end of a glacier. An erratic is a large stone or boulder that has been deposited in a similar way when glaciers retreated, being of a totally different type of rock to that on which it was deposited.
Which two spheres interact when a glacier erodes a rock?
Which two spheres interact when a glacier erodes rock
Is little rock smaller than a boulder?
Figuring you mean the landmark, no little rock is bigger
