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Wedgwood Rock is a glacial erratic (and known to geologists as the "Wedgwood Erratic") near the neighborhood of Wedgwood in Seattle, Washington. It is 80 feet (24 m) in circumference and 19 feet (5.8 m) or 26 feet (8 m) [34] in height. Since 1970 it has been an offense punishable by a $100 fine to climb the rock.
A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word errare ("to wander"), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres. Erratics can range in size from pebbles to large boulders such as Big Rock ...
Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. The boulder covers 5,800 square feet (540 m 2) of ground and is seven stories high. [citation needed] Giant Rock is the largest freestanding boulder in North America and is purported to be the ...
Airport Boulder, at Martha Lake Airport Park in Martha Lake, said to be "one of the largest glacial erratic boulders in urban King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties", [1] is approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) long on its longest axis and about twice a man's height. The erratic is composed of greenstone, [2] and has long been used for bouldering (rock ...
Boulder in British Columbia, Canada. Kämmenkivi stone on the Pisa hill in Kuopio, Finland. In geology, a boulder (or rarely bowlder) [1] is a rock fragment with size greater than 25.6 cm (10.1 in) in diameter. [2] Smaller pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely ...
The boulder is a relic of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and was well known to Native Americans in its location on the west branch of the Ontonagon River, in what is now Victoria Reservoir. According to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, the boulder was used by tribe members to make offerings to its manitou (spirit) and to seek improvement in their ...