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Glacier boulder

Landscape in Nunavut, Canada, showing impact of glacier erosion

This landscape in Nunavut, Canada, shows the impact of glacier erosion. There is very little on the bare granite rock surface, though there is a large boulder that would have been carried by a glacier and then deposited.

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Rights: Lynda Dredge of the Geological Survey of Canada
Published: 21 June 2007Size: 1.29 MB
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