Ehalkivi

{{Short description|Biggest glacial boulder in Estonia}} {{Infobox landform | name = Ehalkivi | other_name = | type = Glacial erratic | image = Ehalkivi1.jpg | alt = | caption = | pushpin_map = Estonia | map_caption = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_label = Ehalkivi | mark = | marker_size = | location = Near Letipea | coordinates = {{Coord|59.5498|N|26.5876|E|type:landmark_region:EE|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = | elevation_m = | elevation_ref = | surface_elevation_ft =  | surface_elevation_ref = | length = | width = | area =  | depth = | drop = | formed_by = pegmatite | geology = glacial erratic | age = | orogeny = | topo = | website =  | embed = }} '''Ehalkivi''' ({{Literal translation|Sunset Glow Boulder|lk=yes}}) is an erratic boulder in Letipea, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia; for its volume is the largest of its kind in Estonia,<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5wrVAAAAMAAJ&q=Ehalkivi+widest | page = 13 | title = A Thousand and One Facts about Soviet Estonia |publisher = Perioodika | author = AA.VV. | year = 1989 | isbn = 9785797900856 | accessdate = 30 March 2022 }}</ref> and one of the largest of its kind in the glaciation area of North Europe.<ref name="keskkonnaportaal.ee">{{cite web |title=Ehalkivi |url=https://keskkonnaportaal.ee/register/protected-nature-object/7381066 |website=keskkonnaportaal.ee |access-date=6 March 2022}}</ref>

Geologically the boulder had originally formed as a pegmatite-type intrusive magmatic rock.<ref name="keskkonnaportaal.ee" />

==Dimensions== thumb|upright|left|View from the shore * Height: 7.6 m<ref name="keskkonnaportaal.ee" /> * Circumference: 49.6 (measured at 1.5 m from water surface)<ref name="keskkonnaportaal.ee" /> * Volume: 930 m<sup>3</sup><ref name="keskkonnaportaal.ee" /> * Mass: ca 2,500 t{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}

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Category:Viru-Nigula Parish Category:Glacial erratics of Estonia