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Definition of Tillite
1. rock made up of consolidated clay, sand, gravel, and boulders [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tillite
Literary usage of Tillite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth (1907)
"Above the terraced fields occur steep banks of tillite, a greenish rock, ...
At the top of the tillite, beneath a cliff, is a well-exposed contact with the ..."
2. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907)
"Above the terraced fields occur steep banks of tillite, a greenish rock, ...
At the top of the tillite, beneath a cliff, is a well-exposed contact with the ..."
3. Seasonal Deposition in Aqueoglacial Sediments by Robert Wilcox Sayles (1919)
"in the first description, there is left about 180 feet of tillite proper. ...
The sequence in the tillite formation, as near as I have been able to make it ..."
4. Annual Report of the Geological Commission by George Steuart Corstorphine, Arthur William Rogers (1908)
"A search for a clear exposure of the contact of the quartzite and tillite revealed
the fact that on the northwestern side of the quartzite a passage from ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1906)
"The sheet of tillite slopes to the left and weathers in spiked outcrops on a
faintly developed schistosity transverse to the sheet. ..."
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