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Definition of Bowlders
1. bowlder [n] - See also: bowlder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowlders
Literary usage of Bowlders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"Isolated Pebbles and bowlders.—The presence of large isolated bowlders in relatively
... Such bowlders are characteristic of some alluvial cone deposits, ..."
2. Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts by Edward Hitchcock, Massachusetts Geological Survey (1833)
"On Nantucket, bowlders and gravel are rare ; only four or five large blocks ...
On the Vineyard, thn bowlders are very numerous, and some of them very large ..."
3. The Mississippi Valley Between Savanna and Davenport by Joel Ernest Carman (1909)
"bowlders.—Over the lowan plain, bowlders are frequent and in some places numerous
... In clearing the land for farming, the bowlders are usually removed and ..."
4. Geological Studies by Alexander Winchell (1886)
"One of the largest bowlders known lies in the Northwest Territory, north of Montana.
... One peculiar circumstance connected with nearly all bowlders, ..."
5. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1826)
"I have had occasion to dig up a great number of bowlders, ... These bowlders are
found, not only on the surface, but I have discovered them a number of feet ..."
6. The Glacial Geology of New Jersey: By Rollin D. Salisbury, Assisted by Henry by Rollin D. Salisbury, Henry Barnard Kümmel, Charles Emerson Peet, George N. Knapp (1902)
"The limestone bowlders in the Central Highlands are of two kinds, ... The latter
is the more widely distributed, and its bowlders are well worn and striated ..."
7. Preliminary Geological Map of Connecticut by Herbert Ernest Gregory, Henry Hollister Robinson (1908)
"In this way the bowlders in the bottom of the ice are polished and grooved ...
bowlders.— Another evidence of ice work is the great abundance of bowlders ..."
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