Till is an unsorted mixture of materials of all sizes, from fine clay and sand, gravel, pebbles, and cobblestones, to large bowlders.
The solid rocks are broken and crushed in sliding and converted into waste consisting, like that of talus, of angular unsorted fragments, blocks of all sizes being mingled pellmell with rock meal and dust.
Clays and sand, now hardened to firm rock, are inset with unsorted stones of all sizes, which often are faceted and scratched.
The solid rocks are broken and crushed in sliding and converted into waste consisting, like that of talus, of angular unsorted fragments, blocks of all sizes being mingled pell-mell with rock meal and dust.
I suppose it would not be doubted in general that a section of such stony, bowldery, unsorted material two miles long would have other than a glacial origin, yet such may be the case.
Each lowermost terminal moraine is fronted by a great mass of unsorted coarse bowldery material forming a fill in places several hundred feet thick, as below Choquetira and in the Vilcapampa Valley between Vilcabamba and Puquiura.
He found unsorted rock fragments where the glacier's nose melted, and let them fall.
This great, unsorted mass of rock meal and coarser debris the stream is gradually scattering down the valley.
What explanation is there for this extensive distribution of unsorted debris?
The unsorted portion, which amounted to about 40 per cent of the total, consisted of the articles of all classes posted or received in London late on Friday evening, which the London General Post Office did not sort before despatch.
With the exception of trade circulars and price lists, all the unsorted mails received were dealt with by the sea post office between Aden and Bombay.
But what purpose was served by thus importing into his notes a mass of borrowed and unsorted references?