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

“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 Norton, William Harmon

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 Atwood, Wallace W.

The great depressions, together with the intervening highland, are therefore believed to be responsible for the absence of glaciation in the driftless area.

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

In the glaciated area 61 per cent of the land is improved and in the driftless area only 43.5 per cent.

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