An erratic boulder is a boulder of rock which is of a different type than the local rocks. Erratic boulders are ofter more correctly termed glacial erractics as they were generally picked up, transported (often many hundreds of miles) and then finally deposited by melting glaciers.
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The boulder differs in composition from the underlying bedrock.
It's called an erratic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic.
Erratic boulders can provide evidence of a flood because of the distance that is measured from where they were originally placed. This could only be through a strong current of water as they are usually displaced and out of place.
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.
Erratic adj irregular, inconsistent, wandering around. Erratic noun an erratic is a rock found where it does not belong. Many millenia ago it was carried on a glacier from where it originated to where it was found.
An erratic block.
An erratic block.
The boulder differs in composition from the underlying bedrock.
it is called an Erratic
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'.
A boulder left behind by a retreating glacier is known as an erratic. A glacier is a moving river of ice and snow.
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It's called an erratic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic.
An erratic boulder is a rock that has been moved and left in position as the glacier recedes.