Akmens kelias į Lietuvą

• Main Author: Baltrūnas, Valentinas
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: Lithuanian
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Lietuva; Fenoskandija; Akmuo; Riedulys; Ledynas; Gamtos paminklas; Lithuania; Fennoscandia; Stone; Boulder; Glacier; Geological monument; Geologija / Geology (N005); The Cones; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://www.vdu.lt/cris/bitstream/20.500.12259/127061/2/ISSN1822-7309_2008_T_6.PG_14-22.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/127061

Stones as solid individual pieces of rock are the main subject matter of the present paper. Their origin on the surface of the earth has been discussed by European field scientists since long ago. According to one of the persistent hypotheses, boulders were scattered by the waters of deluge. In the course of time, a new hypothesis has developed. According to it, stones were scattered on the surface of the earth by icebergs. This hypothesis was proposed by a Scottish field scientist Ch. Lyell in 1830. Famous doctor and field scientist E. Eichwald (1830) also supported this point of view. He explained the appearance of boulders in the Vilnius region by iceberg activity. Some time later, exponents of the theory of glaciations took root in Europe. This opinion became popular in the Baltic countries in the second half of the 19th century (C. F. Schmidt, G. Berendt, A. Giedraitis, etc.). Yet only in 1911 a Finnish scientist J. Sederholm compiled and published a map demonstrating the cones (fans) of scattering of Fennoscandian indicator boulders in the northern part of Europe Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas Švietimo akademija