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- unsorted glacial deposits (i.e., glacial till), other processes that create diamictons are solifluction, landslides, debris flows, and turbiditic olistostromes...
- of slow periglacial solifluction compromise poorly stratified diamicton and diamicton where stratification is wholly lacking. When stratification can...
- deposits consisting of pebbly mudstones, and co****, poorly sorted, cobbly diamictons ****ociated with the Guangxi karst, China. The gravel content of boulder...
- 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...
- Sandstone. The superficial geology is varied with pockets of sand and diamicton along the lower-lying land adjacent to the Mersey and through Runcorn...
- 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...
- ac****ulation (known as diamicton) occurred along the ice margins. Whereas the glacial river deposits were more substantial by volume, the diamicton deposits represent...
- 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...
- 19th century, was a boggy wetland. Beneath the loch is a bed of till and diamicton dating to the last Ice Age. Today, Williestruther Loch is maintained by...
- (1 January 1999). "Distinguishing subglacial till and glacial marine diamictons in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica: Implications for a last glacial maximum...