Submitted by Generic_Commenter-X t3_yopaa4 in vermont
bleahdeebleah t1_ivf6teb wrote
Glacial erratics?
Generic_Commenter-X OP t1_ivf80dw wrote
:) No, no, no... nothing as scientifically precise as that. More of a homegrown term.
bleahdeebleah t1_ivf9ez3 wrote
"That fucking rock in the middle of the goddamn field"
Lord_Mormont t1_ivfa4n5 wrote
This guy Vermonts.
Hillman314 t1_ivfc57t wrote
I was going to say “rocks”, but this seems more accurate.
Generic_Commenter-X OP t1_ivg503l wrote
Take my upvote.
whaletacochamp t1_ivfd0kr wrote
Slightly less fancy would be "glacial deposit"
Original-Green-00704 t1_ivfytlx wrote
Thanks for sharing the term glacial erratics; I knew them as glacial till or glacial rubble.
pocomoonshine t1_ivhjtw2 wrote
I thought erratics were truly massive boulders that sometimes end up in unlikely places where they don't resemble the local bedrock, because they were carried by glaciers which eventually melted. But I'm not a geologist nor geotech engineer.
Telespacepharm t1_ivid1s6 wrote
Glacial erratics typically describe large stones deposited by prehistoric glaciers that don’t match native stones in a region. Typically big, cool funky rocks that mere mortals can’t lift with relative ease.
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