glacial erratic

English

Noun

glacial erratic (plural glacial erratics)

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.

Translations

rock

Danish: vandreblok (da) c
Dutch: zwerfkei (nl) m
Finnish: siirtolohkare (fi)
French: bloc erratique (fr) m
German: Findling (de) m
Norwegian: flyttblokk (no) m or f
Nynorsk: flyttblokk m or f
Polish: głaz narzutowy (pl) m
Swedish: flyttblock (sv) n

Further reading

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