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IV.—On the Preservation of Deposits of Incoherent Materials under Till or Boulder-clay
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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Those who maintain that Till or Boulder-clay has not only originated but accumulated underneath glacier-ice may sometimes have felt puzzled to account for the preservation of beds of more or less incoherent materials below a deposit which they have so many cogent reasons for believing to be a true moraine profonde.
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page 77 note 1 Canadian Journal, April, 1877.
page 78 note 1 It may reasonably be doubted whether interglacial deposits were always so very loose and incoherent at the time they were overridden by ice. My brother has suggested that when the ice-sheet advanced over a land-surface, the loose superficial deposits might be frozen so hard as to be capable of resisting a very considerable degree of glacial erosion.
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