Sentences with phrase «glacial deposits containing»

Moraine Creek is certainly an apt name; it has carved through an impressive cake of glacial deposits containing rocks of all origins and colors, ground together, mixed, and mashed by creeping glaciers.

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In fact, the Libyan Sahara Desert contains unmistakable glacial scars and Antarctica has extensive coal deposits — and very likely abundant oil and gas — that establish that their plates were once at the other ends of the earth (see image at right).