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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glacial drift

Next below the soil is the Kansan glacial drift; but the assertion that objects found at this depth are of the same age as the drift is not necessarily or even presumably correct.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

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

Many stone implements such as were made and used by the aborigines have been found at various times buried deeply under the glacial drift.

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

Another characteristic of glacial drift, and one which clearly distinguishes it from all other formations with which it might be confounded, is easily understood from its method of formation.

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

This theory has color given to it by the directions of movement shown by the glacial drift.

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