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glacial till: Refers to a type of sedimentary material deposited by glaciers, often used in geology and earth science contexts
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  • an unstructured geological deposit composed of boulders, clay, gravel, sand, and silt that is transported by glacial drift.

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Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.
The find location is a glacial till deposit.
Glacial till is found in different types of deposits.
This is the process of glacial till deposition.
Glacial till with tufts of grass.
This represents the movement of glacial till.
Glacial till is material dragged with a moving ice sheet.
Surficial deposits were glacial till and coarser moraine.
The glacial till layer must also remain saturated.
Other areas are covered by glacial till.
Testfills of glacial till made to compare compaction equipment are described.
This gorge is cut through bedrock instead of glacial till.
The glacial till is compact and has a high bearing strength.
Soil is mostly glacial till.
The glacial till is a result of the material deposited directly by the ice.

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Some of the ridges are made entirely from glacial till.
Houdek is a type of soil composed of glacial till and decomposed organic matter.
These are usually the depositions of proglacial lakes or glacial till.
Closeup of glacial till.
The sedimentary rocks are mantled with loamy glacial till.
There are moreover stretches of glacial till spread across their flanks.
Most of these features contain a high percentage of glacial till.
The other two units are glacial till and surficial granular deposits.
It grows in moist riparian soils and in dry glacial till soils.
Sandy soils and glacial till are generally not susceptible to shrinkage due to moisture depletion.
Below these layers is the parent material called glacial till.
The house stands on glacial till and it seems that the additions were hastily constructed.
Drumlins and drumlin clusters are glacial landforms composed primarily of glacial till.
Sand dunes and glacial till provide a contrasting environment amidst the diverse vegetation found here.
Filling in several low areas near the divider dyke with glacial till.
Glacial till is still widely known in Britain by the older name of boulder clay.
The organic soil layer was underlain by discontinuous layers of sand and clay glacial till.
Most of the county is covered by glacial till of Late Wisconsinan age.
These productive soils consist of silty loessial materials and clay loam glacial till.
This is covered with Glacial Till from the quaternary ice age.
The Formation is mostly exposed in outcrops or covered with glacial till.
These soils are formed from glacial till and glacial outwash, respectively.
Geologically the mountain consists of tilted layers of the Karoo succession including glacial till deposits.
North of Rockville, the gently undulating land is glacial till resulting from Wisconsinan glaciation.
The Strange Till Plain is a flat ground moraine with underlying glacial till.
Landform: glacial till deposits.
The Cave is the product of natural erosion of glacial till below the tufa.
A stable glacial till deposit underlies the entire area at a depth of approximately 10.5 metres.
The massive ice at Peninsula Point formed between the Kittigazuit sands and the glacial till.
Distribution, source and evolution of nitrate in a glacial till of southern Alberta, Canada.
To the south of the Park, the limestone bedrock disappears under a layer of glacial till.
The glacial till is generally decalcified to 3 - 4 metres ; thinner strata may be entirely decalcified.
Scallops are most plentiful on sand and larger-grained glacial till.
Landform, ridged glacial till deposits Soils,.
There are too, swarms of drumlins and a widespread plastering of glacial till elsewhere.

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