glacial drift

noun

, Geology.

1. material, as gravel, sand, or clay, transported and deposited by a glacier or by glacial meltwater.

Example Sentences

It also drains regions of the glacial drift and beds which overlie overturned Miocene strata, and are sometimes mixed with them.

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A good deal of the solid geology is obscured in many places by glacial drift, boulder clay and sands.

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Yet another theory advanced is that the Foreign Stones were transported to the plain as boulders of the "glacial drift."

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Directly overlying the sheets of glacial drift laid down by the ice there is a flora corresponding to that of the present tundras.

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Other circumstances occurred, however, to establish a connection between this formation and the glacial drift.

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