Boulder

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Boulder is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm (10 inches) diameter. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually just called rocks or stones. Kjeragbolten, a 5 m³ boulder wedged in a mountain crevasse by the edge of the Kjerag mountain NOR [1]

Boulder is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm (10 inches) diameter.

While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move.

Smaller boulders are usually just called rocks or stones.

[edit] Also See

• Mountain
• Mountain Glossary
• Glacial erratic
• Landform Gallery
• Scree
• Rock

[edit] Reference

1. Wikipedia Boulder [2]

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