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Edmonds boulder is one of many left by glaciers

The Columbian
Published: May 30, 2011, 5:00pm

EDMONDS, Wash. (AP) — After untold millennia of glacier surfing, a big rock in Edmonds, Wash., is taking a quick, 12,000-year break.

Geologists believe a boulder located in a mobile-home park is an “erratic,” a stone deposited in the area by glaciers during the ice age.

The rock is roughly 12 feet high by 10 feet wide by 15 feet long.

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