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Glossary Soil / Term

Till

An unstratified or crudely stratified glacial deposit consisting of a stiff matrix of fine rock fragments and and old soil containing sub-angular stones of various sizes and composition, many of which may be striated (scratched). It forms a mantle from less than 1 m to over 100 m in thickness covering areas which carried an ice sheet or glaciers during the Pleistocene and Holocene periods.

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