[Rockhounds] glacial erratics (was Stonehenge geology resolved)

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Pete,

I was disillusioned too. I went looking for the largest erratic  
expecting to find the big rock in New Hampshire I visited with my  
sister a few years ago.

Cheers!

Kreigh


On Monday, Feb 2, 2009, at 11:48 America/Detroit, pmodreski at aol.com  
wrote:

> Neat website about that big rock, Kreigh!
>
>
> Some erratics are big. You might enjoy the size of the biggest one?
> ?
> http://culture.alberta.ca/museums/historicsiteslisting/okotokserratic/ 
> default.aspx?
> ?
> and the interesting legend of how it split in two.?
> ?
> Kreigh?
>
>
> And, alas, I'm afraid your post was a great disillusionment to me,  
> because I couple of years ago I had visited, and was very impressed  
> by, the Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire, glacial erratic, a  
> N.H. State "Wayside Monument" and locally known as "the largest known  
> glacial erratic".? It is,
>
>
> "Madison Boulder is a huge granite rock measuring 83 feet (25 m) in  
> length, 23 feet (7.0 m) in height above the ground, and 37 feet (11 m)  
> in width. It weighs upwards of 5,000 tons."
>
> Your Okotoks Erratic "Big Rock" in Alberta has?clearly got it all beat,
>
> "The Okotoks Erratic weighs 16,500 tons. It measures 9 metres high, 41  
> metres long and 18 metres wide."
>
> and?evidently holds the world record, as is stated in the very good  
> Wikipedia article about glacial erratics,
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic
>
> Next time I'm in Alberta (never been there, actually), I've got to see  
> it!
>
> Cheers, Pete
>
>
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