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

Those whose homes are situated between Winnetka and Waukegan on the lake shore have the foundations of their houses set in glacial drift that was shoved into position by the ice during the glacial period.

From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Gray, Elisha

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

The bed of the stream is composed of glacial drift, all the rapids being paved with bowlders varying in size from an inch to two or three feet in diameter.

From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by Shields, George O.

The departure from the erosion type is due to a mantle of glacial drift which masks the topography of the bedded rock beneath.

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