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Definition of Tillites
1. tillite [n] - See also: tillite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tillites
Literary usage of Tillites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seasonal Deposition in Aqueoglacial Sediments by Robert Wilcox Sayles (1919)
"BANDED SLATES WITH OTHER tillites. After working for nearly two years on the
problem in hand, and convinced that I was the first to suggest seasonal banding ..."
2. A Century of Science in America: With Special Reference to the American by Edward Salisbury Dana, Charles Schuchert (1918)
"Africa is the land of tillites, and here in 1870 Sutherland pointed out ...
There are here no typical tillites, and no striated undergrounds have so far ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"(1) tillites.— Glaciers of to-day deposit in front of themselves either sheets
of glacial bowlder clays or moraines that are composed of heterogeneous ..."
4. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"Basal tillites of the Huronian. — One'of the most surprising of recent discoveries
in Geology was the finding by Coleman of tillites (morainal deposits of ..."
5. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"Basal tillites of the Huronian. — One of the most surprising of recent discoveries
in Geology was the finding by Coleman of tillites (morainal deposits of ..."
6. The Squantum Tillite by Robert Wilcox Sayles (1914)
"I mention this absence of striae because so many geologists, on this account,
doubt the glacial origin of certain tillites. Striated stones are frequently ..."
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