Sentence examples for glacial erratic from inspiring English sources
noun
A rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests, usually large and transported there by a glacier.
Ship Rock is a glacial erratic, but this fact is of minor interest to the poet, who is more concerned with humans and with God.
Paul Milde (AB '82) on a glacial erratic just down Church Street from his house in otherwise flat and swampy Mattapoisett, MA.
Agassiz noticed the marks that glaciers left on the Earth: great valleys; large glacial erratic boulders carried long distances; scratches and smoothing of rocks; mounds of debris called moraines pushed up by glacial advances.
The tents are clustered in the lee of a large glacial erratic and, now the clouds have cleared, the view is second to none, taking in the dry plains far below and myriad volcanic peaks in every direction.
But a trip to Camp Hero this time of year means enjoying vistas that would normally be concealed by layers of leaves, spotting black-capped chickadees and watching seals sun themselves on the glacial erratic rocks.
From the outside, the building looks as much like landscape as it does architecture — a weird three-sided concrete boulder, perhaps a glacial erratic left behind when a future ice age melts, dotted with irregularly cut windows.
Glacial erratics and glacially striated rocks on mountain summits now high above current ice-sheet levels testify to an overriding by ice at much higher levels.
In the northern Swedish mountains, in situ cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al concentrations from glacial erratics on relict surfaces as well as glacially eroded bedrock adjacent to these surfaces, provide consistent last deglaciation exposure ages (∼8 13 kyr), confirming ice sheet overriding as opposed to ice free conditions.
Some suggest that the bluestones came not from Preseli but from nearer to the site, glacial erratics from the Irish Sea Glacier.
It is scarred with large outcroppings of granite, called glacial erratics, which slid here thousands of years ago from the White Mountains in New Hampshire.
A landmark is the Madison Boulder, one of the largest granite glacial erratics, measuring 83 feet (25 metres) tall and 37 feet (11 metres) wide.
