20 August 2022

Two erratics from coastal Maine

Posted by Callan Bentley

Happy Saturday! Here are two erratics (glacially transported boulders) that I saw last week in coastal Maine. This one shows prominent subparallel striations:

And this one, in the town of Penobscot, next to the greasy spoon called Bagaduce Lunch, shows aligned feldspars that suggest magmatic flow:

Nothing like a good erratic to get the weekend started off right!