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The term "erratic" is commonly used to refer to erratic blocks, which geologist Archibald Geikie describes as: "large masses of rock, often as big as a house, that have been transported by glacier ice, and have been lodged in a prominent position in the glacier valleys or have been scattered over hills and plains. And examination of their ...
Erratic may refer to: Erratic, a project of music artist Jan Robbe; Glacial erratic, a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in ...
Snow accumulation on ground and in tree branches in Germany Snow blowing across a highway in Canada Spring snow on a mountain in France. Classifications of snow describe and categorize the attributes of snow-generating weather events, including the individual crystals both in the air and on the ground, and the deposited snow pack as it changes over time.
Scientists are baffled as to why the rare and endangered sawfish have been spotted in Florida waters spinning around, and 28 have been found dead.
Zone of plucking in the formation of tarns and cirques Glacially-plucked granitic bedrock near Mariehamn, Åland. Plucking, also referred to as quarrying, is a glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the weathering and erosion of pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks".
“And what I mean by state of the art is technology that would take greater than 10 years for the U.S. to develop, if they started now.” That leaves non-earthly origins and Graves, for one ...
The true method of experience first lights the candle [hypothesis], and then by means of the candle shows the way [arranges and delimits the experiment]; commencing as it does with experience duly ordered and digested, not bungling or erratic, and from it deducing axioms [theories], and from established axioms again new experiments. [11]: 101
Whiffling is a behaviour some birds perform before landing. Whiffling is a term used in ornithology to describe the behavior whereby a bird rapidly descends with a zig-zagging, side-slipping motion.