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Значения термина boulder clay на английском

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Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together.

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        Использование термина boulder clay на английском
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        The chalk, then, is certainly older than the boulder clay.
        Autobiography and Selected Essays
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        The range was very steep, and fully 1200 feet high, composed entirely of boulder clay.
        The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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        The fluvio-marine series usually terminates upwards in finely laminated sands and clays without fossils, on which reposes the boulder clay.
        The Antiquity of Man
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        This boulder clay had extended all the way from San Rafael, and ranges of hills appeared to be composed entirely of it.
        The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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        They are seen in some places to rest on the boulder clay of the glacial period, which will be described in future chapters.
        The Antiquity of Man
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        There seem to be only three or four instances as yet known in all Scotland of mammalia having been discovered in boulder clay.
        The Antiquity of Man
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        The ground was entirely composed of boulder clay, and not until we had travelled about five miles did we see any rock in situ.
        The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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        Our course at first lay up the banks of a torrent that had cut deeply into beds of boulder clay filled with great stones.
        The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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        We returned to the city in time to be present at a most interesting lecture by Hugh Miller on the Boulder Clay.
        James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
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        The overlying unstratified boulder clays 3 and 4 were thrown down in deeper water by the aid of floating ice coming from the north.
        The Antiquity of Man
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