A stone that has been carried by a glacier (often some distance) and dropped when the ice has retreated. As such some unusual glacial erratics were especially used, as standing stones or stone axes.
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A rock or rock fragment transported by a glacier and deposited on bedrock of different composition. Glacial erratics range from a few millimeters to several yards in diameter.
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a boulder swept from its place of origin by glacier advance or retreat and deposited elsewhere as the glacier melted; after glacial melt, the boulder might be stranded in a field or forest where no other rocks of its type or size exist. Erratic boulder, northeastern Manitoba, Canada. A sense of the size of the glacial erratic can be es...
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a glacially transported and deposited stone, commonly of boulder or cobble size.
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