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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Example Sentences

On brisk fall mornings, the view from just outside Frank Lloyd Wright’s bedroom is superb: The architect designed Taliesin, his visionary home, to frame the high hills of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, so named because ancient glacial “drift” never covered this land like it did elsewhere in the region.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Driftless Area accounts for the majority of small-producer Wisconsin cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Driftless Area Land Conservancy and the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation issued a joint statement praising the decision.

From Seattle Times

“We should not set a precedent that a simple land swap is all it takes to plow through a national treasure,” Driftless Area Land Conservancy Executive Director Jennifer Filipiak said in the statement.

From Seattle Times

The Statz family farm is in the Driftless Area, a fertile, rolling swath of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa untouched by ice age glaciers and the rocky “drift” they left as they retreated.

From New York Times