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Glacier
a large mass of moving ice
glacial drift
the rock material deposited directly by a melting glacier
till
unsorted rock deposited by a melting glacier
stratified drift
a glacial deposit that has been sorted and layered by the action of meltwater
Mass Movement
The movement of any material, such as rock soil or snow, downslope