Split Rock, a large Canadian erratic carried by glacier ice from Mount Edith Cavell to the prairies in the colder climate of the Pleistocene Epoch

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Split Rock is part of the Foothills Erratics Train, quartzite rocks from Mount Edith Cavell in the Rocky Mountains of Jasper National Park which were carried by glacier ice during the Pleistocene Ice Age and deposited in present-day Calgary

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Size: 3030px × 2020px
Location: West Nose Creek Park (Confluence Park), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Photo credit: © Rosanne Tackaberry / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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