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Till

1. A term for government funds.

2. A British term for a cash register.

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If the precise causative linkages are still a little fuzzy, it is evident that the ancient glacial deposits cannot be studied in the absence of discussion of plate tectonic and basinal setting (Crowell, 1999).

Frozen in time: concepts of 'global glaciation' from 1837 (die Eiszeit) to 1998 (the Snowball Earth)

Each one is a semi-continuous belt of ground, ten to 300 ft higher than surrounding glacial deposits, or perhaps just thicker till where it is plastered onto bedrock hills as in Logan County or northeastern Ohio.

Scenes in Ohio during the last Ice Age: address of the President of The Ohio Academy of Science delivered at the 68th Annual Meeting at Capital University, Bexley, Ohio on 17 April 1959

For example, paleosols formed in glacial deposits, such as the Sangamon paleosol in the United States and Canada (Hall 2000) and the Eemian soil in Europe (Stremme 1998), bave been important in identifying ancient surfaces and interpreting interglacial climates.

International year of planet earth 4. Utilizing paleosols in Quaternary climate change studies

1998, drilling of a water well in glacial deposits near Newport in Vermillion County, Indiana, yielded fragments of middle-Wisconsinan aged wood at a depth of 129 ft (40 m).

Middle-Wisconsinan gravel and wood from a well-drilling in west-central Indiana

Various glacial deposits exhibit a range of properties related to their potential use and limitations for geotechnical aspects.

Subsurface investigations of several glacial successions related to engineering construction

Brian Harland of the University of Cambridge when he noticed that glacial deposits (called tillites) from the Neoproterozoic era are found on rock outcroppings on every continent, with the possible exception of Antarctica.

Ice Over Earth

These sedimentary environments include alluvial fans, meandering river deposits, lake deposits, eolian (desert) deposits, deltaic deposits, lagoon deposits, glacial deposits, peritidal deposits, clastic shelf deposits, continental rise deposits, and pelagic sediments of the deep sea.

Geological evidence for evolution and an old earth. (Evolution Symposium Abstracts)

A big freeze caused glacial deposits found in the tropics, according to a computer model that simulated the planet's past climate.

Spot the difference

Glacial deposits have also been interpreted in the west part of the Chirikov Basin by Hess (1985).

The Age and Origin of the Little Diomede Island Upland Surface

They were up there at the top of the list of things to forget the instant you left school, along with how to make sodium nitrosulphate (or whatever) and the term for glacial deposits at the bottom of a scree (or whatever).

Bruce Millington's column: World plan impossible to oppose

In common with Skellefte, much of the bedrock geology in Norrbotten is covered by glacial deposits, reducing the opportunity for direct examination of bedrock outcrops.

Sweden's exploration boom

His long-term study of glacial deposits supports other contentions that thousands of years ago Earth experienced much wider average temperature swings than previously thought.