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Figure 12. Balancing Rock, South Berwick, Maine, is a glacially transported boulder known as a "perched boulder" because it was deposited by the ice onto another boulder which holds the larger stone above the ground surface. (Photo with permission by C. Grunden).


Last updated on March 26, 2012