boulder

     

In geology, a bouler is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm (10 inches) diameter. While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually just called rocks or stones. The word boulder comes from Middle English "bulder" which was probably of Scandinavian origin such as dialectal Swedish "bullersten" meaning "noisy stone" (Imagine a large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it) from "bullra" (to roar, cf. Dutch "bulderen", with the same meaning) and "sten" (stone).

Trivia about boulder

  • Named for the large rocks in the area, it's home to the University of Colorado
  • The site of the University of Colorado's main campus, it owns Arapahoe Glacier, from which it gets most of its water
  • It's the University of Colorado Campus founded in 1876, & we hear that its parties really "rock"
  • Mork traveled millions of miles from Ork to this Colorado city, Mindy's hometown
  • It's a large rock fragment greater than 8 inches in diameter or a Colorado resort city NW of Denver
  • University of Colorado
  • Trenton, Concord, Boulder
  • Time in the U.S. is determined by the National Institute of Standards & Technology whose atomic clock is in this Colorado city
  • University of Colorado

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