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Boulders

A huge square-shaped boulder about 12 metres high with two people inspecting it from below.

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Photo credit: Pierre Cornellier; Martine Lavallée collection.

This is an example of the large boulders found in the Laurentian region. They are fragments or morainic rock that were displaced, sometimes over large distances, by the actions of a glacier. As the glacier melted, the boulder came to rest in the last place it had been moved to.