[Rockhounds] glacial erratics (was Stonehenge geology resolved)

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

The monster boulder is in Madison, NH, and the wiki article has a pic

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,_New_Hampshire

The granite boulder the size of a large house sits in a park on the  
edge of town. When I visited my sister a few years ago she took me to  
see it telling me it was the biggest glacial erratic (leaving off in  
New England). You really get an appreciation of the power of a glacier  
when you think that something that big actually was moved.

Kreigh


On Tuesday, Feb 3, 2009, at 09:16 America/Detroit, The Hammer wrote:

> Kreigh,
>
> Could you tell us more about this big rock in New Hampshire?
>
> Ron
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> From: Kreigh Tomaszewski <Kreigh at tomaszewski.net>
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> Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 8:51:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] glacial erratics (was Stonehenge geology  
> resolved)
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> 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:
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>> 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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