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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geology, a compact, unstratified deposit formed beneath glaciers; till; boulder-clay.
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The northern or seaward face of the hill is much plastered with drift, but none is to be found on the landward side, and it is suggested that the shell-bearing material is the ground-moraine of
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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