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Example sentences for "boulder clay"

  • Boulder clay, or marine northern drift, rising to about ninety feet above the Ouse.

  • Boulder Clay or from some other of the Glacial Beds.

  • In this the surface is rolling and hilly, the rocky ridges having a scanty coating of boulder clay and an occasional thicker deposit in the depressions.

  • Cliffs of Boulder clay at Filey lying on Calcareous Crag.

  • This clay drift, or boulder clay, caps, to a depth of from 10 to 50 feet or more, almost all the hills in the northern division of Essex, and a large portion of Suffolk and Norfolk.

  • A boulder clay, formerly exposed at Icknield Street, Birmingham, while presenting the same physical characteristics as the Wolverhampton clay, differed from it widely in the nature of the embedded erratic blocks.

  • A Boulder Clay, of a typical kind, has been exposed at a brickyard, at the bottom of Oak Street, Wolverhampton.

  • The river has cut through it to a depth of over two hundred feet, and there are high precipices of it on both sides, similar to those near streams in the North of England that cut through thick beds of boulder clay.

  • The range was very steep, and fully 1200 feet high, composed entirely of boulder clay.

  • 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 more usual arrangement is boulder clay overlain by modified drift, the first being laid down by the ice itself, the second being deposited by streams from the melting glacier in its retreat.

  • Farther east where the two tracks of the New York and New England railroads converge, a cut shows a section of at least 40 feet of boulder clay.

  • It consists of a jumbled mass of morainal hills, seemingly of boulder clay, that rise from 50 to 60 feet above the level of the ponds.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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