Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Till is derived from the erosion and entrainment of material by the moving ice of a glacier. It is...

deposits and till are ice-transported sediments. Sediment can be classified based on its grain size, grain shape, and composition. Sediment size is measured...

associated erosion and deposition of sediments caused by glacial meltwater. Glaciers contain suspended sediment loads, much of which is initially picked...

Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor. These particles either...

Sediment transport is the movement of solid particles (sediment), typically due to a combination of gravity acting on the sediment, and the movement of...

settle in place. The particles that form a sedimentary rock are called sediment, and may be composed of geological detritus (minerals) or biological detritus...

Look up Till or till in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Till is unsorted glacial sediment. Till may also refer to: Tillage, a broad type of soil preparation...

Pelagic sediment or pelagite is a fine-grained sediment that accumulates as the result of the settling of particles to the floor of the open ocean, far...

depositing the sediments it carried. Ground moraines are formed with melts out of the glacier in irregular heaps, forming rolling hills. Till plains are common...

(glacial till) that forms moraines and stratified drift (glaciolacustrine and fluvioglacial sediments) that accumulates as stratified and sorted sediments in...

sheet pushed material to form the ridge, which is composed of Halton Till sediment, rich in silt and clay. By contrast, the Oak Ridges Moraine is primarily...

Sedimentation is the deposition of sediments. It takes place when particles in suspension settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come...

and thrust-block moraines, which are often composed of till and reworked proglacial sediment. Moraine may also form by the accumulation of sand and gravel...

and outwash sediments: sediments deposited by water. These deposits are stratified by size. Larger pieces of rock that are encrusted in till or deposited...

till when deposited. Push moraines are formed when a glacier retreats from a previously deposited terminal moraine, only to push proglacial sediment or...

structures include all kinds of features in sediments and sedimentary rocks, formed at the time of deposition. Sediments and sedimentary rocks are characterized...

constructional, suggests that they form as sediment is deposited from subglacial waterways laden with till including gravel, clay, silt, and sand. As...

deposition of a particular type of sediment and, therefore, the rock types that will be formed after lithification, if the sediment is preserved in the rock record...

place as the sand comes under increasing pressure from overlying sediments. Sediment grains move into more compact arrangements, ductile grains (such...

doi:10.1038/ngeo186. Rempel, A. W. (2008). "theory for ice-till interactions and sediment entrainment beneath glaciers". Journal of Geophysical Research...

weathering which involves no movement. Removal of rock or soil as clastic sediment is referred to as physical or mechanical erosion; this contrasts with chemical...

In oceanography and limnology, the sediment–water interface is the boundary between bed sediment and the overlying water column. The term usually refers...

erosion around the plains as well as flooding from inland seas provided sediments that make up the rock strata of the interior plains. Between 2.0 and 1...

Coastal sediment transport (a subset of sediment transport) is the interaction of coastal land forms to various complex interactions of physical processes...

become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased friction. The ice becomes buried in the sediment and when the ice melts...

There are two kinds of glacial till: Basal till - carried at the base of the glacier and laid underneath it. This till is typically very compacted and...

glacial till that form when a sheet of ice becomes detached from the main body of a glacier and melts in place depositing the sediments it carries. Till plains...

δια (dia-): through and μεικτός (meiktós): mixed) is a terrigenous sediment (a sediment resulting from dry-land erosion) that is unsorted to poorly sorted...

Djenné (Mali, 2004) Loess – Sediment of accumulated wind-blown dust Grain size – Diameter of individual grains of sediment, or of lithified particles in...

Cyclic sediments (also called rhythmic sediments) are sequences of sedimentary rocks that are characterised by repetitive patterns of different rock types...