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  2. Glacial erratic - Wikipedia

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    Multiple erratics on the terminal moraine of the Okanogan Lobe. The Cascade Mountains are in the background.. 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 ...

  3. Glossary of geology - Wikipedia

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    Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...

  4. Erratic - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Drift (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Rounded erratic boulders of crystalline rock composition next to Ordovician limestone bank along the shoreline in NW Osmussaar, Estonia. In geology, drift is a name for all sediment ( clay , silt , sand , gravel , boulders ) transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by glacial meltwater .

  6. Mood swing - Wikipedia

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    The dynamics of mood, mood patterns for long times are commonly erratic, [12] labile [13] or instable, also known as euthymic. [14] Although the term of mood swing is unspecific, it may be used to describe a pattern where mood goes down from positive to negative valency immediately (without delay in baseline) at specific periods. [ 15 ]

  7. Glacial erratic boulders of the Puget Sound region - Wikipedia

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    Wedgwood Rock is a glacial erratic (and known to geologists as the "Wedgwood Erratic") near the neighborhood of Wedgwood in Seattle, Washington. It is 80 feet (24 m) in circumference and 19 feet (5.8 m) or 26 feet (8 m) [34] in height. Since 1970 it has been an offense punishable by a $100 fine to climb the rock. [35

  8. Norber erratics - Wikipedia

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    Norber erratic, December 2014. The Norber erratics are one of the finest groups of glacial erratic boulders in Britain. They are found on the southern slopes of Ingleborough, close to the village of Austwick in the Yorkshire Dales. The Ordnance Survey grid reference of the boulder field is

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.