Great granite glacial boulder and blocks split from the side. Massachusetts, 1907.
Dates
Date Taken
1907-05-22
Summary
Album caption: Great granite glacial boulder and blocks split from the side, one and one-half miles south-southwest from Hardwick, on crest west of road to Gilbertville, Mass. Circumference 89 feet, over top from ground to ground 49 feet, piece split off the side 53 feet circumference, 7 feet maximum thickness. Barre quadrangle. D. 8, ex. 1/5 sec., sun, 2 P.M., Massachusetts. May 22, 1907. USGS Bulletin 760, Pl. 17-A, 1925. Handwritten note on album caption: Worcester Co.
Summary
Album caption: Great granite glacial boulder and blocks split from the side, one and one-half miles south-southwest from Hardwick, on crest west of road to Gilbertville, Mass. Circumference 89 feet, over top from ground to ground 49 feet, piece split off the side 53 feet circumference, 7 feet maximum thickness. Barre quadrangle. D. 8, ex. 1/5 sec., sun, 2 P.M., Massachusetts. May 22, 1907. USGS Bulletin 760, Pl. 17-A, 1925.
Handwritten note on album caption: Worcester Co.
Available in the U.S. Geological Survey Denver Library Photographic Collection, Alden, W.C. Collection.
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