Use Erratics in a sentence

1. Glacial Erratics, often simply called Erratics, or erratic boulders, are rocks that have been transported by ice and deposited elsewhere

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2. Erratics are boulders which have been transported by glaciers to locations of a different geology

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3. Some Erratics are found hundreds of miles from their source area

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4. There is no need to know a named example of an erratic for GCSE Geography, but if you must know, the best-known examples in England are the Norber Erratics in Yorkshire

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5. These migrating stones, once deposited, are called “Erratics” — they stick out among their new surroundings

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6. Erratics is Hannah Perrine Mode, Nina Elder, and Tyler Rai.

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7. Glacial Erratics are stones and rocks that were transported by a glacier, and then left behind after the glacier melted. Erratics can be carried for hundreds of kilometers, and can range in size from pebbles to large boulders

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8. Scientists sometimes use Erratics …

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9. The Erratics’ historical and cultural significance is evident by the pictographs present on one of the largest Erratics in North America known as “Big Rock”

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10. Erratics end up in glaciers by many different means

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11. Erratics may be embedded in till or occur on the ground surface and may range in size from pebbles to huge boulders weighing thousands of tons.

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12. These boulders are called Erratics, and they are usually a different type of rock from the rock in the place where they end up. Erratics are one of the many …

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13. The Erratics have been playing friendly cricket, mostly in Devon, since 1934

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14. The importance of Erratics discussed herein is demonstrated by two examples

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15. Roomusoks (1970) listed some sponge taxa from Estonia, both as Erratics, and collected in situ

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16. Anderson (1957) and Rhebergen (1985) discussed the provenance and transport of fluvial Erratics in the Netherlands.

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17. Erratics from a given area are nearly always more numerous near their source and diminish in number with distance from the source

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18. A large-scale example of a boulder train that can be observed in Iowa is the distribution of glacial Erratics composed of the distinctive Sioux Quartzite, a very hard, uniformly pink rock.

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19. Often, these Erratics can be seen along country fence rows where farmers have cleared them from their fields

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20. Although the glaciers left Illinois about 13,500 years ago, they left behind many kinds of Erratics, including quartzite, schist, granite, and gabbro.

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21. Erratics is the off spring of Sunshine, my clay creations and stones needed a home of their own! The pottery beads that you find here are totally unique

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22. Erratic (plural Erratics) A rock moved from one location to another, usually by a glacier

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23. Erratics record the story of a glacier's travels

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24. Looking for the bedrock units that correspond with Erratics can reveal complex flow patterns.

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25. Erratics perched on top of other glacially transported rocks or on top of steep, narrow bedrock outcrops, provide an indication of near-ground ice velocity that is not solely tangential to bedrock

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26. Many Erratics are smoothed or rounded, indicating that they were dragged along at the base of a glacier, continuously wearing against basal rocks.

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27. The Erratics is a memoir by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, a début author in her mid-seventies

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28. The Erratics won the 2019 Stella Prize, for the best book by an Australian woman published in the preceding year

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29. The Erratics is a memoir by Canadian-born Australian translator and author, Vicki Laveau-Harvie

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30. The Erratics is a totally different twist on the prairie stories of Margaret Lawrence, Alice Munro and, more recently, Esi Edugyan: written from the perspective of someone who lived through trauma and, simply, one who left to make a new life

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31. Numerous Erratics glacial Erratics were ice-rafted and deposited in the Vancouver Basin, Clark County, Washington

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32. The glacier Erratics silently watch over the park entrance and most people do not even notice them (they are visible from the Denali hotels!)

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33. If you are in good hiking condition I would highly suggest you make the trek to the Erratics.

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34. The Erratics is a totally different twist on the prairie stories of Margaret Lawrence, Alice Munro and, more recently, Esi Edugyan: written from the perspective of someone who lived through trauma and, simply, one who left to make a new life

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35. Learn about glacial Erratics; About the Author

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36. Large U-shaped valleys, ridges of debris (moraines), and out-of-place boulders (Erratics) are evidence of a glacier’s passing

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37. “The Erratics grabbed me by the throat and never let go

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38. Synonyms for Erratics in Free Thesaurus

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39. The fact that Erratics’ points of origin can be determined with precision is useful to glacial geologists, who sometimes refer to deposits of such rocks as boulder trains

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40. Ascending the hill one begins to see the glacial Erratics half buried in the forest floor

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41. Many Erratics are of notable size and beauty

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42. A gripping memoir, Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s The Erratics mines the psychological damage wrought on a nuclear family by a monstrous personality, set against the bitter cold of a Canadian winter.Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s narrative voice is detached, slightly numb and darkly humorous

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43. The Erratics doesn’t drip with pathos or gaze shudderingly into its navel, and yet there are moments of tenderness springing up like flowers in …

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44. Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s The Erratics is a beautifully crafted, unblinkingly honest, often darkly funny lament for a loving family that never was

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45. ‘Huge glacial Erratics, boulders unlike most of the other rocks in their surroundings, stand in mute testimony to their cross-country transport by advancing ice.’ ‘In the absence of other sources of building stone, glacial Erratics have been extensively used in Finland and northern Poland.’

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46. Erratics (religion, spiritualism, and occult) The Erratics, or erratic stars, was a term used in traditional astrology to refer to the planets, as distinct from the fixed stars.

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47. “Yeah, Erratics are pretty cool,” agrees David Williams, urban geologist and author of “The Seattle Street-Smart Naturalist and Stories in Stone.” “They reveal the power of ice, not only to sculpt the land, but also to act as giant trucks moving huge rocks, tens or hundreds of miles

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48. Erratics range from pebble-size to larger than a house and usually are of a different composition that the bedrock or sediment on which they are deposited

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49. Erratics can be found overlying bedrock or embedded in till in areas that were previously glaciated

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50. Glacial Erratics may range in size from pebbles to “house-sized” boulders; however, most scientists and casual observers equate glacial Erratics with boulder-sized rocks

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51. Erratics are generally considered to be a nuisance, especially by farmers who must clear fields

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52. But some gravel pit opera-tors have found a ready market for “fieldstone” cobbles and larger boulder Erratics for landscaping, architectural, and specialty construction

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53. Erratics also help geologists recon-struct the flow directions of glacial ice.

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54. Drumlins and Erratics are just two of the fascinating glacial artifacts that we can observe while we wait for the ice sheet to come back with another load

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55. Glacial Erratics are only too well known to most North Dakota farmers, who have laboriously piled them in the corners of their fields

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