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Honestly thought the whole 'glacial erratic' thing was just a fancy name for a random rock, but I found a massive granite boulder in a field in Iowa last month that looked totally out of place. A local told me it was dropped by a glacier like 15,000 years ago and now I'm obsessed. Anyone else have a story about a rock that made you believe something you thought was just a tall tale?
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stellabennett4mo ago
Right? "Dropped by a glacier" sounds like a myth, but it's real. I had the same thing happen in a park in Ohio. Saw this huge, smooth, dark rock just sitting in the middle of a pine forest where everything else was dirt and leaves. It felt like it was from another planet. Learning it was a glacial erratic made the whole landscape feel different, like you're seeing a scratch on the earth from something ancient. It's wild to just stumble on proof of an ice age.
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riley_garcia4mo ago
Yeah, that feeling of the landscape changing once you know what you're looking at is so cool. It's like your brain flips a switch and suddenly you're not just in a forest, you're standing in the path of a giant sheet of ice. That "scratch on the earth" line is perfect, it really does feel like that. Makes you feel tiny in the best way, lol.
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harper2544mo ago
My kid found a huge, smooth rock in our yard that just didn't belong there.
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