Boulders such as this can show evidence of the processes that transported and ultimately deposited them. This boulder has clear striations, indicating movement by ice. It is ~1.5 m long: a hand tape sits on top of the boulder to give a sense of scale. This boulder sits outside the massive lateral moraines at Kviarjökull in southeast Iceland, and is likely to have been deposited before 3000 years ago on the basis of its position relative to features with known ages. Its location is helpful in reconstructing the dynamics of ice advance and retreat in Iceland over the Holocene period. The model was constructed in 2014 during an undergraduate field excursion from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth.
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