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