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On this sand a great mass of boulder clay usually quite devoid of fossils was accumulated.
The boulder clay, when it was first studied, seemed in many of its characters so singular and anomalous, that geologists despaired of ever being able to interpret the phenomena by reference to causes now in action.
The difficulty, moreover, of accounting for the entire dearth of marine shells in till is removed when once we have adopted the theory of this boulder clay being the product of land-ice.
Boulder clay is classed with a group of poorly sorted materials, described by the non-genetic term diamicton.
Boulder clay and clays are also found south of the village.
Boulder clay is also abundant and moraines cover substantial areas.
So only at the margins of an ice sheet would the fluctuating sedimentary record be preserved, whereas interior glaciation might compound tills in final deposits of boulder clay.
We will not, for example, have the fritillary without water meadows, nor the oxlip without ancient boulder clay woods.
It is sour, limeless, boulder clay, with not very good drainage, and an unfortunate predilection for growing rushes.
They told me that they had run into 12 kilometres of boulder clay and that it was improbable that they would be able to bury the pipeline for that length.
The valley bottoms have a thin deposit of boulder clay.
The local drift geology is mostly glacial boulder clay, as well as glacial sands and gravel.
The clay-rich hilltop soils are primarily a consequence of blanketing of the area with boulder clay or glacial till during the recent glaciations.
Till, also known as boulder clay, is a mix of unconsolidated sediment with a range of grain sizes (clay-boulder).
Much boulder clay is of a bluish-grey until exposed to weather which causes a transformation to a brown colour.
Beneath the pasture the archaeology is on boulder clay overlying magnesian limestone.
The earliest masonry building was the church, which was constructed on shallow foundations of sandstone rubble and pebbles on boulder clay.
It consists of ancient semi-natural woodland on a boulder clay soil.
