Sentence examples for boulder clay from inspiring English sources

Glacial till (or boulder clay) is the most widespread sediment on the island of Ireland.

In the southern part of the county, marls and pebble beds, sometimes overlain with boulder clay, form rolling countryside.

Podzol-type soils prevail, except in the many peat bogs, marshes, and swampy forests that are scattered over the boulder clay (till) plain.

He studied the Old Red Sandstone (Devonian strata), the boulder clay of Caithness, and the Carboniferous plants (about 299 million to 359 million years old) of Scotland.

Jurassic fossils can be found in the boulder clay which falls during heavy rain or high tides; you might find mammalian and bird remains.

The first, Hayley Wood: Its History and Ecology (1975) was an account of the finest wood left on the boulder clay of western Cambridgeshire, near St Neots.

Since 1911 a great deal has been discovered regarding the age of these remains, which were thought originally to be older than the Upper Chalky Boulder Clay-a deposit of one of the major glaciations of East Anglia.

Local boulder clays are molded and baked to make bricks and tiles.

Although formed by the solution of limestone, their basins are blanketed with heavy boulder clays.

The advances and retreats of glaciers during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago) deposited a thick mantle of boulder clays and morainic sands and gravels into which the sinuous Moscow River cut its wide valley in successive stages, marked by four corresponding levels.

Photographs a and b show parallel bedding and wavy laminations; c and d show boulder clays; and e shows a basal bounding surface, interpreted as sandy channel facies.