Glossary:Drift

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[edit] Drift

A general term applied to all mineral material transported by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by running water emanating from a glacier. Drift includes unstratified material (till) that forms moraines, and stratified glaciofluvial deposits that form outwash plains, eskers, kames, varves, and glaciolacustrine sediments.

Related Words: Boulder Clay, Esker, Kame, Moraine, Till

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Soil Science Society of America. Glossary of Soil Science Terms. Available online at: http://www.soils.org/sssagloss/ last accessed 28.09.2006


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