This balancing boulder, "Balanced Rock" stands in Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs, CO.

Boulder

In geology, a 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. The word boulder comes from Middle English "bulder" which was probably of Scandinavian origin such as dialectal Swedish "bullersten" meaning "noisy stone" (Imagine a large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it) from "bullra" (to roar, cf. Dutch "bulderen", with the same meaning) and "steen" (stone). There are several towns worldwide named Boulder or with boulder in their names. ... National Park Service photo of Balanced Rock; permissible use with attribution File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... National Park Service photo of Balanced Rock; permissible use with attribution File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A view of Garden of the Gods showing some of its unusual hogback formations. ... Colorado Springs is a middle-sized city, located just east of the geographic center of the state of Colorado in the United States. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1848x1312, 561 KB) Cracked granite boulder @ Ffionphort, Scotland Author: User:Velela. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1848x1312, 561 KB) Cracked granite boulder @ Ffionphort, Scotland Author: User:Velela. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Rock redirects here. ... Particle size, also called grain size, refers to the diameter of individual grains of sediment, or the lithified particles in clastic rocks. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter), symbol mm is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... Rock may refer to: Rock, a geologic substance composed of minerals Rock, short for Rock and Roll music Rock, a small offshore islet with minimal soil Rock, a confectionery made and sold in many of the UKs seaside holiday resorts Rock candy, a type of confectionery composed of large... Rock redirects here. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...

In places covered by ice sheets during Ice Ages, such as Scandinavia and Northern North America, ice has moved and formed granite boulders (glacial erratics). One of the largest is used as the pedestal of the Bronze Horseman in Saint Petersburg. An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km² (19,305 mile²).[1] The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the last ice age at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much... Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... A Glacial erratic is a piece of rock carried by glacial ice some distance from the rock outcrop from which it came. ... Alexandre Benoiss illustration to the poem (1904). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and...

Some famous rock formations involve giant boulders exposed by erosion, such as the Devil's Marbles in Australia's Northern Territory, the Wairere Boulders in New Zealand, where boulders only form an entire valley, and The Baths on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. For morphological image processing operations, see Erosion (morphology). ... One of the boulder formations at the Devils Marbles site. ... For similar terms, see Northern Territories (disambiguation) Slogan or Nickname: The Territory, The NT, The Top End Motto(s): none Other Australian states and territories Capital Darwin Government Constitutional monarchy Administrator Ted Egan Chief Minister Clare Martin (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 2  - Senate seats 2 Gross Territorial Product (2004... The Wairere Boulders are an unusually large assemblage of boulders in the Hokianga, int he far north of New Zealand. ... Virgin Gorda is the second-largest of the British Virgin Islands Virgin Gorda is the third-largest of the British Virgin Islands. ...

Bouldering is a sport that involves climbing on boulders. Bouldering is a style of rock climbing undertaken without a rope and normally limited to very short climbs so that a fall will not result in injury. ...

The city of Boulder, Colorado was named for these large rocks. Colorado is home to hundreds of them, including Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs. The City of Boulder ( , Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ...