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boulder clay

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | © A Dictionary of Earth Sciences 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

boulder clay Glacial deposit consisting of boulders of varying size in a clay-dominated matrix, and laid down beneath a valley glacier or ice sheet. Typically it is unstratified and unsorted, and characterized by rock types derived from the country crossed by the depositing glacier. See also TILL.

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