The
Foothills Erratics Train is a long, narrow ( wide), linear scatter of thousands of typically angular
boulders of distinctive
quartzite and
pebbly quartzite that that lie on the surface of a generally north-south strip of the
Canadian Prairies. These boulders, which are between and in length, are
glacial erratics that lie upon a surficial blanket of
Late Wisconsin glacial
till. The largest glacial erratic within the Foothills Erratics Train is
Big Rock.