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

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

Young rocks, such as chalk, crag, clay, mudstone and the sand and gravel "glacial drift" washed out from under the Scandinavian ice sheet, cover much of the east and south.

From BBC

Mike’s glacial drift into becoming a murderer for hire — enable the show to stay recognizable and real while simultaneously indulging every crime-genre flight of fancy it can cook up.

From New York Times

The appearance of northern shells in the upper divisions of the Pliocene series indicates the approach of the Glacial period, and glacial drift containing Scandinavian boulders now covers much of the country east of the Zuider Zee.

From Project Gutenberg

Much glacial drift clay with stones covers the older rocks over a good deal of the county; it is a bluish clay, often containing masses of chalk, some of them being of considerable size, e.g. the one at Catworth.

From Project Gutenberg