Boulder trail in the park
Every boulder on the Tartu Nature House park trail has its own story of formation and migration.
As you move along the trail located in front of the house, you will get to know different types of erratic boulders that moved from Scandinavia to Estonia with the glacier during the last ice age and settled here as moraine when the ice melted. On the trail, you can scan the QR codes on the rocks with your phone, which open an animation with additional information.
From the larger boulders found in the ground during the construction of the Nature House and the neighboring building, different types of igneous and metamorphic rocks have been selected for viewing here:
- Wyborgite
- Erratic stones
- Pyterlite
- Pegmatitic granite
- Migmatized gneiss
- Gneiss
- Mica gneiss
- Granite porphyry
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The Glacial Erratics trail has been updated, and new animations for the trail have been created as part of the Nordplus collaboration project “Promoting Education for Sustainable Development through Outdoor Learning Methods to Improve the Health of the Baltic Sea (OUTIES).”
We would like to thank the Estonian Geological Society for their thoughtful input, and a special thanks goes to Kairi Põldsaar for her long-term collaboration and content development. Heartfelt thanks also go to our voice actors – Poolakess, Jürgens, and Ponna – for generously lending their voices to our animated characters, and to BOP! Animation for their professional execution of the animations.