glacial striation

One of several, long, straight, parallel lines or grooves in a bedrock surface, formed by boulders, gravel, and pebbles embedded in a glacier that has passed over the surface.

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Images of falling water, molten lava, glacial striation, swarms and murmurations and eruptions swirl and surge before us, more referential than a typology of nature's randomness.