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Definition of Glacial boulder
1. Noun. A boulder that has been carried by a glacier to a place far distant from its place of origin.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glacial Boulder
Literary usage of Glacial boulder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man and the Glacial Period by George Frederick Wright, Henry Williamson Haynes (1892)
"Veb»el Rock, a glacial boulder in Gilsum, NH (CH Hitchcock.). the distance to
which the boulders may be ..."
2. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1805)
"A glacial boulder FROM RED BANK, HANGING DITCH, MANCHESTER. By Mr. B. HOBSON,
Lecturer on Petrology at Owens College. On April 5th, 1904, Mr. \V. Blackstock ..."
3. The Craven and North-west Yorkshire Highlands by Harry Speight (1892)
"... and General Lambert—Calton in old time«—Hanlith Hall—Hanlith Moor— Ancient
barrow—Unique glacial boulder—Malham. ¡HERE are a few things of interest, ..."
4. Report of the State Geologist by Erwin Hinckley Barbour, F. A. Carmony (1903)
"A glacial boulder of Sioux quartzite about 20 feet long by 10 feet wide and 10
feet thick, after a large amount had been blasted off for building ..."
5. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1908)
"Correlation; India, Australia, South Africa. It appears that similar beds of
glacial boulder-clay have been found in India, Australia, and South Africa. ..."
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