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- Diamicton (also diamict) (from Gr**** δια (dia-): through and μεικτός (meiktós): mixed) is a terrigenous sediment (a sediment resulting from dry-land erosion)...
- of slow periglacial solifluction compromise poorly stratified diamicton and diamicton where stratification is wholly lacking. When stratification can...
- ac****ulation (known as diamicton) occurred along the ice margins. Whereas the glacial river deposits were more substantial by volume, the diamicton deposits represent...
- either a mud or sand matrix. Unlithified diamictite is referred to as diamicton. The term diamictite is often applied to nonsorted or poorly sorted, lithified...
- the ridges in eastern Lake Ontario are glacial deposits of subglacial diamicton resting on an undeformed bedrock surface. Given other information revealing...
- Sandstone. The superficial geology is varied with pockets of sand and diamicton along the lower-lying land adjacent to the Mersey and through Runcorn...
- lacking. The glacial origin idea has been aided by the fact that the diamicton deposited during a period when the Earth was subject to a widespread glaciation...
- of Rogart. It sits in a bed of psammite, surrounded by peat bogs and diamicton. The loch's name likely derives from the Scottish Gaelic salach, meaning...
- deposits consisting of pebbly mudstones, and co****, poorly sorted, cobbly diamictons ****ociated with the Guangxi karst, China. The gravel content of boulder...
- and eskers, mostly consist of sand and gravel but may include beds of diamicton, silt and clay. Kames and kame plateaus usually have bases of laminated...