In the early stages of erratic boulders to the destructive effects of this supposed global Deluge, but by 1830 geologists increasingly found that the evidence only showed relatively local floods.
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Criss-crossing the island is ores of diabas from a major erratic boulders deposited during the last Ice Age, thus the island illustrate well the local geological events spanning half a billion years.
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The Swedish mining expert Daniel Tilas ( 1712 1772 ) was, in 1742, the first person to suggest drifting sea ice in order to explain the presence of erratic boulders in the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.
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In 1829, independently of these debates, the Swiss civil engineer Ignaz Venetz ( 1788 1859 ) explained the dispersal of erratic boulders in the Alps, the nearby Jura Mountains, and the North German Plain as being due to huge glaciers.
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In 1834, de Charpentier presented his paper before the Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft . In the meantime, the German botanist Karl Friedrich Schimper ( 1803 1867 ) was studying mosses which were growing on erratic boulders in the alpine upland of Bavaria.
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The northern section of the bay's coast comprises the popular surfing and tourist venues of Croyde Bay and erratic boulders transported to the area by glaciation, including a 12 tonne pink granite boulder at Saunton thought to have originated in north west Scotland.
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Preserved by the Trustees of Reservations, the rock is an enormous erratic boulder, a landmark in the forest where in 1672 Mary Rowlandson of Lancaster _ captured in an Indian raid during King Philip's War _ was ransomed or " redeemed " from her captors.
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Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee ( UK-APC ) in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in the area after Horace Benedict de Saussure ( 1740 99 ), Swiss naturalist and physicist, who in 1787 was the first to recognize that erratic boulders had been moved great distances by ice.
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A 2.4 meter high, 16 square meter circumference granite erratic boulder is located 300 meters ( 984 feet ) from the shore of Lake V�rtsj�rv and with the surrounding 0.77 ha ( 83 sq ft ), has been designated as a Protected Nature Monument by the Estonian Nature Conservation Act in 2007 and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
