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Definition of Boulders
1. boulder [v] - See also: boulder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boulders
Literary usage of Boulders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"The upper surface of the boulders is usually deeply grooved, ... The boulders
readily split into slabs along lines coinciding with the grooves. ..."
2. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1908)
"boulders, gravel and sand occur in some abundance throughout the area. ...
The boulders include Archean granites, gneisses and schists, crystalline and ..."
3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1888)
"The sand-boulders described were found in the surface deposits at Columbia,
Missouri, within a few miles of the 39th parallel of latitude. ..."
4. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey, George Hammell Cook (1868)
"boulders of the Green-Pond Mountain conglomerate have been noticed as far ...
Some gneiss boulders of enormous size have been seen ; one just south of the ..."
5. Geological Observations on South America: Being the Third Part of the by Charles Darwin (1846)
"Near the Cordillera it is composed of a stratified mass of pebbles of all sizes,
occasionally including rounded boulders : near its western boundary, ..."
6. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"Mr. Laing observes that in Orkney there could be no boulders, &c., ... Two granite
boulders lying on red sandstone rocks—distant, one a quarter of a mile, ..."
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