This link has photos of glacial erratics, mostly in the Northeast. If you click on any photo, you'll get info on the name of the rock, etc. These are mostly old postcards, colorized, and there are some pretty cool old images here....
In so many cases, enormous boulders like these acquire names and become very well know locally. The first two photos here are of an erratic known as Cobble Rock, from northern RI. Remarkably, this rock was eventually somehow knocked off its perch during a thunderstorm in 1977. Must have been some kinda wind, lol.
Cobble Rock:
I'll bet many of these impressive landscape features acquire names like "Indian Rock". It just seems like people see these things, think "oh, I'll bet the Indians gathered here", and the rock acquires that association. The third photo here is of Indian Rock, sitting above the Scituate Reservoir, constructed after that photo was taken pre-1907. It is located on state land surrounding the reservoir, and can no longer be visited. It provides drinking water for much of RI, and post 9/11, one does not want to be caught on that property.
But, back in the late 70's/early 80's, friends and I recorded landscape features like this, and the remaining photos were taken by me at that time, at Indian Rock, Scituate ,RI. The last two photos show myself and my sister in a cavity located beneath this massive free standing boulder. This is the largest erratic I have seen in RI, but there are certainly bigger examples in New England, and can be seen at that first link. There must be quite a few "Indian Rock" erratics in previously glaciated landscapes....
If you have photos of any big, big rocks from your own neck of the woods, feel free to post them....
In so many cases, enormous boulders like these acquire names and become very well know locally. The first two photos here are of an erratic known as Cobble Rock, from northern RI. Remarkably, this rock was eventually somehow knocked off its perch during a thunderstorm in 1977. Must have been some kinda wind, lol.
Cobble Rock:
I'll bet many of these impressive landscape features acquire names like "Indian Rock". It just seems like people see these things, think "oh, I'll bet the Indians gathered here", and the rock acquires that association. The third photo here is of Indian Rock, sitting above the Scituate Reservoir, constructed after that photo was taken pre-1907. It is located on state land surrounding the reservoir, and can no longer be visited. It provides drinking water for much of RI, and post 9/11, one does not want to be caught on that property.
But, back in the late 70's/early 80's, friends and I recorded landscape features like this, and the remaining photos were taken by me at that time, at Indian Rock, Scituate ,RI. The last two photos show myself and my sister in a cavity located beneath this massive free standing boulder. This is the largest erratic I have seen in RI, but there are certainly bigger examples in New England, and can be seen at that first link. There must be quite a few "Indian Rock" erratics in previously glaciated landscapes....
If you have photos of any big, big rocks from your own neck of the woods, feel free to post them....
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