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boulder clay
noun
, Geology.
- a glacial deposit consisting chiefly of unstratified clay with embedded boulders.
boulder clay
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Word History and Origins
Origin of boulder clay1
First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences
The U-shaped character of the valleys was very pronounced, while boulder-clay obtruded itself everywhere on our notice.
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That there might be several deposits of the boulder-clay with intervening strata, does not appear to have been suggested.
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(B) The ‘sub-boulder-clay’ skeleton, discovered near Ipswich in 1911, was in an extraordinarily contracted attitude.
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The boulder clay of Germany is supposed to have accumulated underneath this vast "mer de glace," as he calls it.
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The deposits immediately preceding the Forest-Bed would also be contemporaneous with the lower continental boulder clay.
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