A small cairn has been built on the highest one, but a remarkable glacial erratic boulder is perched on one of the other mounds.
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In 1795, the Scottish philosopher and gentleman naturalist, James Hutton ( 1726 1797 ), explained erratic boulders in the Alps by the action of glaciers.
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He died at Beaumaris in Anglesey and is buried at St Sadwrn's church in Llansadwrn where his grave is marked by a glacial erratic boulder.
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The top of the pass is an upland wilderness, with barren slopes and many erratic boulders, that is often covered in snow in the winter.
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The primary character of the shore here is shifting sands eroded from the bluffs with large fields of rocks, slabs of peat, and erratic boulders.
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A particular characteristic of this area is the presence of isolated erratic boulders, pushed down by glaciers that in prehistory occupied the Valmasino and Valmalenco valleys.
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Directly at the foot of the Gellort is a 165-ton glacial erratic boulder known as the " Siebenschneiderstein " ( Low German : " S�benschniedersteen " ).
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R�gen is dotted with many glacial erratic boulders, of which the 22 largest belong to legally-protected geotopes ( " see also : Erratics on and around R�gen ).
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The topography is a result of the massive glaciation of the last Ice Age, and as such the soil is extremely rocky and the surface shows glacial erratic boulders.
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William Buckland had led attempts in Britain to adapt the geological theory of catastrophism to account for erratic boulders and other " diluvium " as relics of the Biblical flood.
