driftless area

American  

noun

1. a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.

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driftless area

“The driftless area, I’d never been before,” Waller said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2018

Thus the driftless area is in strong contrast with the immature drift topography about it, where lakes and waterfalls are common.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

See larger image With these residuary soils of the driftless area, the mantle rock of glaciated tracts is in sharp contrast.

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

In the driftless area the average value per acre in 1910 was less than $24, while in the glaciated area it was nearly $64.

From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Ellsworth Huntington

The driftless area therefore lies south of the highlands, beyond the limit of the ice which surmounted it, and between the Superior and Michigan glacial lobes above their point of union.

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

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