Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together.
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1 NB: There's still a long way till that, but let's hope so.
2 My spirit, at least-mybody could wait till supper to come home.
3 I stayed in the house with the whitefolks till I was 19.
4 The new tally includes 53 fatalities over the past week till Thursday.
5 Here we remained from early in the morning till in the evening.
1 The chalk, then, is certainly older than the boulder clay .
2 The range was very steep, and fully 1200 feet high, composed entirely of boulder clay .
3 The fluvio-marine series usually terminates upwards in finely laminated sands and clays without fossils, on which reposes the boulder clay .
4 This boulder clay had extended all the way from San Rafael, and ranges of hills appeared to be composed entirely of it.
5 They are seen in some places to rest on the boulder clay of the glacial period, which will be described in future chapters.
6 There seem to be only three or four instances as yet known in all Scotland of mammalia having been discovered in boulder clay .
7 The ground was entirely composed of boulder clay , and not until we had travelled about five miles did we see any rock in situ.
8 Our course at first lay up the banks of a torrent that had cut deeply into beds of boulder clay filled with great stones.
9 We returned to the city in time to be present at a most interesting lecture by Hugh Miller on the Boulder Clay .
10 The overlying unstratified boulder clays 3 and 4 were thrown down in deeper water by the aid of floating ice coming from the north.
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