glacial drift

American  

noun

Geology.

1. material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.

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Example Sentences

She was found under twelve feet of glacial drift in Ottertail County, Minn.�first proof that man lived on this continent during glacial times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within the present year another of the Ice Folk's axes has been found near New London, twenty-two feet under ground, in the same kind of glacial drift as the first.

From Stories Of Ohio by Howells, William Dean

Since lithological and physical heterogeneity are characteristics of glacial drift, they together afford a criterion which is often of service in distinguishing glacial drift from other surface formations.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

Next below the soil is the Kansan glacial drift; but the assertion that objects found at this depth are of the same age as the drift is not necessarily or even presumably correct.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

Much of the Triassic area is covered superficially by glacial drift and alluvium of the Trent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various