Northeast Gardening: stones, rocks, boulders & erratics, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Kathleen, wonderful to use old stones in your garden and that is a very fitting gift for the fallen soldier and no doubt a beautiful erratic. Love to see a picture of it.

Victor, have you seen the big erratic perched on a rim up on Mt Desert Island called Bubble Rock. It is about 25 feet in diameter and looks for sure like it will be rolling down any second. Your kids would be amused. Lots of them around that part of Maine. Also in some in Central Park like "Rat Rock" near the ball fields.

Nantucket was formed by the melting from the glaciers 18,000 years of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, during the Wisconsinian glacial stage. As the huge glacier pushed south it moved mountains of rock, clay and sand south and then as the climate warmed, it melted and all this stuff on the ice sheet was dumped and that is what formed the Cape Cod and the Islands as well as Long Island. We have no bed rock. The last bit of unmelted Laurentide Ice sheet, I think, is on Baffin Island in Canada called The Barnes Icecap which is now melting again. I think I need to go see it.

I love glaciers. I love rocks. Here is part of an old wall on our Vt property. I think it is about 10 feet high, but it is sad that some has fallen and is way too expensive to repair. Maybe I should call Wha in Pepperell, MA who is slaving on a huge project and doing great work. My back just hurts looking at his work. Patti http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/873748/