Boulder
This article is about large rocks. For other uses, see may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are
Boulder (disambiguation).
In geology, a boulder is a rock fragment with size greater large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually
This balancing boulder, Balanced Rock stands in Garden of
the Gods park in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.
Devonian conglomerate with clasts up to boulder in size
than 25.6 centimetres (10.1 in) in diameter.[1] Smaller Media related to Boulders at Wikimedia Commons
pieces are called cobbles and pebbles. While a boulder
extremely massive.[2] In common usage, a boulder is too
just called rocks or stones. The word boulder is short for
boulder stone, from Middle English bulderston or Swedish
bullersten.[3]
In places covered by ice sheets during Ice Ages, such
as Scandinavia, northern North America, and Siberia,
glacial erratics are common. Erratics are boulders picked
up by ice sheets during their advance, and deposited when
they melt.[2] They are called erratic because they typ-
ically are of a dierent rock type than the bedrock on
which they are deposited. One of them is used as the
pedestal of the Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg,
Russia.
Some noted rock formations involve giant boulders
exposed by erosion, such as the Devils Marbles in
Australia's Northern Territory, the Horeke basalts in New
Zealand, where an entire valley contains only boulders,
and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British
Virgin Islands.
Boulder sized clasts are found in some sedimentary rocks,
such as coarse conglomerate and boulder clay.
The climbing of large boulders is called bouldering.
1 See also
Road debris
Monolith
2 References
[1] Wentworth C.K. (1922). A scale of grade and class terms
for clastic sediments. Journal of Geology. 30 (5): 377
392. doi:10.1086/622910. JSTOR 30063207.
[2] Boulder. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
[3] boulder. (n.d.) Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved
December 9, 2011, from Dictionary.com website.
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