Glacial erratic

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The photograph on this page of Glacial erratic by Alasdair MacNeill as part of the Geograph project.

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Glacial erratic

Image: © Alasdair MacNeill Taken: 11 Jul 2012

This huge boulder caught my eye during a walk along the riverside. It's way too big to have been carried by a flood, so I can only assume it was deposited by the last retreating ice sheet.

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Image Location

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Latitude
57.666483
Longitude
-4.337022