Used chiefly in geology to denote a rock or boulder transported and deposited by glacial ice.
Translations
Glacial erratics are common across the moraine landscape.
Les erratiques glaciaires sont courants dans le paysage morainique.
excentriquePour une personne au comportement imprévisible ou bizarre. Definitions
A rock or boulder carried by glacial ice and deposited far from its place of origin. Glacial erratics are common across the moraine landscape.
An eccentric or unpredictable person. Over the years, the prodigy was dismissed as an erratic by his more conventional colleagues.
Synonyms
glacial erratic
erratic boulder