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Glacial erratic

Index Glacial erratic

Indian Rock in the Village of Montebello, New York A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests. [1]

130 relations: Ablation, Alberta, Allochthon, American Geophysical Union, Antarctica, Athabasca River, Atlantic Ocean, Balancing rock, Bering Glacier, Big Rock (glacial erratic), Border, Buckinghamshire, Canadian Prairies, Cape Cod, Cape Cod National Seashore, Carlingford Lough, Charles Darwin, Civilization, Clonfinlough Stone, Cloughmore, Colossus of Ostermunzel, Cooley Peninsula, Cougar Mountain, County Down, Denmark, Der Alte Schwede, Doane Rock, Dropstone, Drumlin, England, Epic of Gilgamesh, Erosion, Erratic Rock State Natural Site, Esker, Estonia, Fern, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Foothills Erratics Train, General circulation model, Geological Society of America, Geologist, Giebichenstein, Glacial erratic boulders of King County, Washington, Glacial erratic boulders of the Puget Sound region, Glacier, Glen Rock, New Jersey, Gneiss, Granite, Grannie stone, Great Stone of Fourstones, ..., Hartmut Heinrich, Hebrews, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Ice age, Ice lens, Ice piedmont, Ice rafting, Iceberg, Ignaz Venetz, Indus Valley Civilisation, Jasper conglomerate, Jean de Charpentier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jura Mountains, Karl Friedrich Schimper, Kelp, Lake Lewis, Lake Missoula, Lake Musselshell, Lancashire, Landslide, Last Glacial Maximum, Legend, Letipea, Lithology, Liverpool, Louis Agassiz, Madison, New Hampshire, Mayflower, McMinnville, Oregon, Merton, Norfolk, Mesoamerica, Missoula Floods, Montana, Montebello, New York, Moraine, Mount Monadnock, Nature Geoscience, New Hampshire, Norber erratics, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northern Ireland, Okotoks, Old Testament, Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony), Pinniped, Pleistocene, Plucking (glaciation), Plymouth Rock, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Poland, Proglacial lake, Provinces and territories of Canada, Rock (geology), Rollstone Boulder, Rostrevor, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Saskatchewan, Seattle, Sediment, Semiahmoo Bay, Soulbury, Stöckse, Strait of Magellan, Sumer, Sunday Rock, Sweden, Terminal moraine, The Hitching Stone, Tierra del Fuego, Till, Washington (state), Waterville, Washington, White Rock, British Columbia, Willamette Meteorite, Willamette Valley, Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales. Expand index (80 more) »

Ablation

Ablation is removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Allochthon

window. A klippe is a solitary outcrop of the nappe in the middle of autochthonous material. In structural geology, an allochthon, or an allochthonous block, is a large block of rock which has been moved from its original site of formation, usually by low angle thrust faulting.

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American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 62,000 members from 144 countries.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Athabasca River

The Athabasca River (French: rivière Athabasca) originates from the Columbia Glacier of the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Balancing rock

A balancing rock, also called balanced rock or precarious boulder, is a naturally occurring geological formation featuring a large rock or boulder, sometimes of substantial size, resting on other rocks, bedrock, or on glacial till.

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Bering Glacier

Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Big Rock (glacial erratic)

Big Rock (also known as either Okotoks Erratic or, by the Blackfoot, as Okotok) is a 16,500-tonne (18,200-ton) boulder that lies on the otherwise flat, relatively featureless, surface of the Canadian Prairies in Alberta.

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Border

Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Canadian Prairies

The Canadian Prairies is a region in Western Canada, which may correspond to several different definitions, natural or political.

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Cape Cod

Cape Cod is a geographic cape extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.

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Cape Cod National Seashore

The Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS), created on August 7, 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, encompasses on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.

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Carlingford Lough

Carlingford Lough (Ulster Scots: Carlinford Loch or Cairlinfurd Loch) is a glacial fjord or sea inlet that forms part of the border between Northern Ireland to the north and the Republic of Ireland to the south.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Civilization

A civilization or civilisation (see English spelling differences) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification imposed by a cultural elite, symbolic systems of communication (for example, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment.

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Clonfinlough Stone

The Clonfinlough Stone is a piece of rock art and National Monument located near Kinnitty, County Offaly, Ireland.

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Cloughmore

Cloughmore or Cloghmore, known locally as "The Big Stone", is a huge granite boulder perched on a mountainside almost above the village of Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Colossus of Ostermunzel

The Colossus of Ostermunzel is a 27.5-tonne stone, a glacial erratic, found in a farmer's field east of Ostermunzel in Lower Saxony, Germany, in 2013.

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Cooley Peninsula

The Cooley Peninsula (older Cúalṅge) is a hilly peninsula in County Louth, Ireland, which includes towns such as Omeath, Carlingford and Greenore.

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Cougar Mountain

Cougar Mountain is a peak in the Issaquah Alps in King County, Washington.

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County Down

County Down is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Der Alte Schwede

Der Alte Schwede or Alter Schwede (meaning (The) Old Swede in German) is a glacial erratic, found during dredging of the river Elbe near Hamburg in 1999, at a depth of 15 m.

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Doane Rock

Doane Rock is a glacial erratic located in Eastham, Massachusetts on the grounds of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

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Dropstone

Dropstones are isolated fragments of rock found within finer-grained water-deposited sedimentary rocks.

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Drumlin

A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia that is often regarded as the earliest surviving great work of literature.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Erratic Rock State Natural Site

Erratic Rock State Natural Site is a state park in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States.

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Esker

An esker, eskar, eschar, or os, sometimes called an asar, osar, or serpent kame, is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America.

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Estonia

Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Fitchburg is the third largest city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Foothills Erratics Train

The Foothills Erratics Train is a long, narrow (wide), linear scatter of thousands of typically angular boulders of distinctive quartzite and pebbly quartzite that lie on the surface of a generally north-south strip of the Canadian Prairies.

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General circulation model

A general circulation model (GCM) is a type of climate model.

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Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Giebichenstein

The Giebichenstein in Stöckse, Germany, is one of the largest erratic boulders of northern Germany.

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Glacial erratic boulders of King County, Washington

Glacial erratic boulders of King County are large glacial erratic boulders of rock which were moved into King County, Washington by glacial action during previous ice ages.

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Glacial erratic boulders of the Puget Sound region

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 Lobe of the glacier reached its maximum extent.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Glen Rock, New Jersey

Glen Rock is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Gneiss

Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Grannie stone

The Grannie or Granny stone is either the only surviving part of a stone circle or a simple glacial erratic.

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Great Stone of Fourstones

The Great Stone of Fourstones, or the "Big Stone" as it is known locally, is a glacial deposit on the moorlands of Tatham Fells, situated in North Yorkshire, England, near Bentham in the District of Craven, and from the county border with Lancashire.

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Hartmut Heinrich

Hartmut Heinrich (born March 5, 1952 in Northeim, Lower Saxony) is a German marine geologist and climatologist.

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Hebrews

Hebrews (Hebrew: עברים or עבריים, Tiberian ʿIḇrîm, ʿIḇriyyîm; Modern Hebrew ʿIvrim, ʿIvriyyim; ISO 259-3 ʕibrim, ʕibriyim) is a term appearing 34 times within 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible.

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Horace-Bénédict de Saussure

Portrait of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (after the picture by Juehl, in the Library at Geneva) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799) was a Swiss geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ice lens

Ice lenses are bodies of ice formed when moisture, diffused within soil or rock, accumulates in a localized zone.

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Ice piedmont

An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains.".

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Ice rafting

Ice rafting is the transport of various materials by ice.

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Iceberg

An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.

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Ignaz Venetz

Ignaz (Ignace) Venetz (1788 — 1859) was a Swiss engineer, naturalist, and glaciologist; as one of the first scientists to recognize glaciers as a major force in shaping the earth, he played a leading role in the foundation of glaciology.

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Indus Valley Civilisation

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), or Harappan Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation (5500–1300 BCE; mature period 2600–1900 BCE) mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.

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Jasper conglomerate

Jasper conglomerate, is an informal term for a very distinctive Paleoproterozoic quartz and jasper pebble conglomerate that occurs within the middle part of the Lorrain Formation of the Cobalt Group of the Huronian Supergroup.

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Jean de Charpentier

Jean de Charpentier or Johann von Charpentier (8 December 1786 – 12 December 1855) was a German-Swiss geologist who studied Swiss glaciers.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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Jura Mountains

The Jura Mountains (locally; Massif du Jura; Juragebirge; Massiccio del Giura) are a sub-alpine mountain range located north of the Western Alps, mainly following the course of the France–Switzerland border.

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Karl Friedrich Schimper

Karl Friedrich Schimper (15 February 1803 – 21 December 1867) was a German botanist, naturalist and poet.

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Kelp

Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.

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Lake Lewis

Lake Lewis was a temporary lake in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, largely formed by the Missoula Floods in about the 14th millennium B.C. Lake Lewis was formed when the restricted flow of waters from periodic cataclysmic floods from Glacial Lake Missoula, pluvial Lake Bonneville, and perhaps from subglacial outbursts, backed up through the constriction formed by the Wallula Gap in the Horse Heaven Hills (southern Washington).

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Lake Missoula

Lake Missoula was a prehistoric proglacial lake in western Montana that existed periodically at the end of the last ice age between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago.

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Lake Musselshell

The basin that held Pleistocene Lake Musselshell is in the lower (north-flowing) reach of the river.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Landslide

The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.

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Last Glacial Maximum

In the Earth's climate history the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the last time period during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension.

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Legend

Legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions perceived or believed both by teller and listeners to have taken place within human history.

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Letipea

Letipea is a village in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northern Estonia.

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Lithology

The lithology of a rock unit is a description of its physical characteristics visible at outcrop, in hand or core samples or with low magnification microscopy, such as colour, texture, grain size, or composition.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history.

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Madison, New Hampshire

Madison is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Mayflower

The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620.

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McMinnville, Oregon

McMinnville is the county seat of and largest city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States.

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Merton, Norfolk

Merton is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is an important historical region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Missoula Floods

The Missoula Floods (also known as the Spokane Floods or the Bretz Floods) refer to the cataclysmic floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the last ice age.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Montebello, New York

Montebello (Italian: "Beautiful mountain") is an incorporated village in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States.

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Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.

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Mount Monadnock

Mount Monadnock, or Grand Monadnock, is a mountain in the New England state of New Hampshire, known for being featured in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

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Nature Geoscience

Nature Geoscience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Norber erratics

The Norber erratics are one of the finest groups of glacial erratic boulders in Britain.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county (or shire county) and larger ceremonial county in England.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Okotoks

Okotoks (originally) is a town in the Province of Alberta, Canada.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God.

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Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)

The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

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Pinniped

Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Plucking (glaciation)

Plucking, also referred to as quarrying, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the erosion and transportation of individual pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks".

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Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.

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Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plymouth (historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Proglacial lake

In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada are the sub-national governments within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution.

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Rock (geology)

Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.

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Rollstone Boulder

The Rollstone Boulder is a ten-foot-tall, 110-ton porphyritic granite glacial erratic located on a traffic island in downtown Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

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Rostrevor

Rostrevor is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences or Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Semiahmoo Bay

Semiahmoo Bay is the southeastern section of Boundary Bay on the Pacific coast of North America.

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Soulbury

Soulbury is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Stöckse

Stöckse is a municipality in the district of Nienburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.

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Sumer

SumerThe name is from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land".

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Sunday Rock

Sunday Rock is a historic natural feature located in South Colton in St. Lawrence County, New York.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Terminal moraine

A terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the snout (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance.

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The Hitching Stone

The Hitching Stone is a gritstone erratic block on Keighley Moor, North Yorkshire, near Earl Crag and the village of Cowling.

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Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.

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Till

Closeup of glacial till. Note that the larger grains (pebbles and gravel) in the till are completely surrounded by the matrix of finer material (silt and sand), and this characteristic, known as ''matrix support'', is diagnostic of till. Glacial till with tufts of grass Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Waterville, Washington

Waterville is a town in and the county seat of Douglas County, Washington, United States.

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White Rock, British Columbia

White Rock is a city in British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of Metro Vancouver.

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Willamette Meteorite

The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette, The Meteoritical Society.

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Willamette Valley

The Willamette Valley is a long valley in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Wrangell–St.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in Northern England in the historic county of Yorkshire, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954.

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Erratic block, Erratic boulder, Erratic boulders, Geschiebekunde, Glacial erratics.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic

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