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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bed .
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Examples
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A boulder-bed of glacial origin, the Talchir Boulder-bed, occurs in many surviving parts of this great land.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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The glacial boulder-bed thus offers indirect evidence as to the age of the Indian coal-measures, for immediately above this bed in the Salt Range there occur sandstones containing fossils which have affinities with the Upper Carboniferous formations of Australia, and on these sandstones again there lie alternations of shales and limestones containing an abundance of fossils that are characteristic of the Permo-Carboniferous rocks of Russia.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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The most remarkable feature in this fragment is a boulder-bed, resting unconformably on the Cambrian strata and including boulders of various shapes and sizes, which are often faceted and striated in a way indicative of glacial action.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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