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

She was found under twelve feet of glacial drift in Ottertail County, Minn.�first proof that man lived on this continent during glacial times.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the stones, large and small, of glacial drift, will be smoothed and striated.

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

In a railway cut through glacial drift or till, a contractor came suddenly upon a mass of till which had been so thoroughly cemented in place as to have all the resistance of rock.

From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)

In most parts of the west the patches of glacial drift form the only agricultural land.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

Its fine glacial drift almost wholly covers the old rock formations.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress