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Definition of Erratics
1. erratic [n] - See also: erratic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Erratics
Literary usage of Erratics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"erratics and angular rock-debris of mountain regions and the Lowlands- Direction
of transport of erratics - Distributed by ice-sheet and glaciers ..."
2. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1857)
"... of erratics and scored rocks in North America and Europe—Bayfield on shells
in drift of Canada—Great subsidence and re-elevation of land from the sea, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1801)
"IX- erratics: By a Sailor; containing Rambles in Norfolk, and elsewhere. In which
are interspersed, some Observations on the late Attempt» to revive the ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"On the Glacial erratics of Leicestershire and Warwickshire. ... The author noted
extraordinary profusion of Mount Sorrel erratics as far as Leicester; ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland by Royal Geological Society of Ireland (1871)
"Nor are we confined to granite alone for these erratics. The granite from whence
they proceed is cut across by various sye- nitic and greenstone dykes, ..."
6. Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations by Charles Lyell (1845)
"Harbour of Halifax.—Excursions near Boston.—Difference of Plants from European
Species, and Correspondence of Marine Shells.—Resemblance of Drift, erratics, ..."
7. Records of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1878)
"The erratics of the Punjab were treated of in my paper simply as wandering
fragments, some of which could be attributed to ice flotation, and some to other ..."
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