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YOUR reviewer states that “the passage of ice over the British uplands swept away all the loose rock materials and re-deposited them in the lowlands as glacial drifts.” I presume that the loose rock materials are supposed to have been produced by pre-glacial weathering. Now, weathered rocks are in very many cases easily recognised, and my own experience of the rocks contained in boulder clays is that they very seldom indeed show any signs of weathering whatever. The boulders are of fresh hard rock which has been removed by the ice.
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DEELEY, R. Glacial Erosion. Nature 85, 541 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085541c0
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