air-formed

Updated: May 5, 2025

But most of the rounded bowlders in the terminal deposit of great glaciers are fragments torn off by the glacier itself. The proportion of rounded bowlders of upper or air-formed to nether or glacier-formed fragments, depends on the depth and extent of the ice-current. The bowlders are, of course, all rounded. This is one extreme.

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