glacial boulder

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• glacial boulder — noun a boulder that has been carried by a glacier to a place far distant from its place of origin • Hypernyms: ↑boulder, ↑bowlder * * * noun : a boulder carried by glaciers to a point far beyond its original location …   Useful english dictionary

• Boulder Park — National Natural Landmark, along with the nearby Natural Landmarks McNeil Canyon Haystack Rocks and Sims Corner Eskers and Kames comprise several of the best examples of Pleistocene ice stagnation landforms in Washington. Feature include numerous …   Wikipedia

• Boulder clay — Boulder clay, in geology, is a deposit of clay, often full of boulders, which is formed in and beneath glaciers and ice sheets wherever they are found, but is in a special sense the typical deposit of the Glacial Period in northern Europe and… …   Wikipedia

• Glacial erratic — [ Doane Rock, at Cape Cod National Seashore] A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that deviates from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests; the name is based on the errant location of these boulders. These rocks were… …   Wikipedia

• glacial landform — ▪ geology Introduction  any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world s higher mountain ranges. In addition, large expansions of present… …   Universalium

• Glacial history of Minnesota — The glacial history of Minnesota is most defined since the onset of the last glacial period, which ended some 10,000 years ago. Within the last million years, most of the Midwestern United States and much of Canada were covered at one time or… …   Wikipedia

• Boulder Glacier — Infobox Glacier | glacier name = Boulder Glacier caption = Boulder Glacier on the southeast slope of Mount Baker type = Mountain glacier location = Washington, U.S. coordinates = coord|48|46|18|N|121|48|00|W|region:US WA… …   Wikipedia

• Glacial Lake Missoula — Wave cut strandlines cut into the slope at left in photo. These cuts record former high water lines, or shorelines. Gullies above the highway are the result of modern day erosion. (NPS Photo) …   Wikipedia

• Boulder — In geology, a boulder is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm (10 inches) diameter. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive.In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person… …   Wikipedia

• glacial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. icy (see cold).Ant., torrid. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Cold] Syn. icy, frozen, polar; see cold 1 . 2. [Indifferent] Syn. cool, unfriendly, antagonistic; see cold 2 , indifferent 1 . III (Roget s 3… …   English dictionary for students

• glacial till —    An unassorted mixture of glacial drift [16].    Synonym: boulder clay; till …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology