glacial erratic

piece of rock that has been moved by a glacier, its size ranges from pebbles to large boulders
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glacial erratic

Summary

glacial erratic ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (728 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • glacial erratic is a type of rock fragment[2].
  • glacial erratic is a type of geographical feature[3].
  • glacial erratic is a type of erratic[4].
  • glacial erratic's Commons category is recorded as Glacial erratics[5].
  • glacial erratic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Glacial erratics[6].
  • glacial erratic's Commons gallery is recorded as Glacial erratic[7].
  • glacial erratic's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=stone[8].
  • glacial erratic's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • glacial erratic's described by source is recorded as Small Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
  • glacial erratic's different from is recorded as glacial boulder[11].
  • glacial erratic's name is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Findling'}[12].
  • glacial erratic's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Geology[13].
  • glacial erratic's P14541 is recorded as 33gNGc[14].
  • glacial erratic's P14692 is recorded as Ahogbèya[15].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include rock fragment[2], geographical feature[3], and erratic[4].

Why It Matters

glacial erratic ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (728 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . zgbk.com. zgbk.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Treisijs · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Geology
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'an', 'ar', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6104]]: [[Q14943910]]"
  2. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Ahogbèya
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 15w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 33gNGc
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) ([[Property:P14541]]) 2"
  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → glacial boulder
    Subclass of → rock fragment, geographical feature, erratic
    Image → ...yet more Norber Erratics. - geograph.org.uk - 42417.jpg, Glacial erratic in Coronation Park, Crosby.jpg
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 19117, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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