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Take a good hard look at it and guess it's size. Once you have approximated its size, give it as hefty kick with a stout shoed foot. This will usually give you a rough idea of it's weight. If you don't have feet, punching the boulder, whilst less accurate, will suffice.

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The overall density can be estimated if the boulder can be weighed and its volume estimated. Otherwise it is not possible.


You could take a few samples, measure the densities of these samples and average them but that requires you to assume that the boulder is more or less homogeneous. A large boulder, especially if it is sedimentary, may well be heterogeneous. If it is volcanic, it may have pockets of other materials or even air inside. So in either case this method will fail

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