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Till

Till of the Lamont Formation

Till of the Lemont Formation. It was taken in an excavation at the Chicago-O'Hare Reservoir. The till here consists of a fairly uniform diamicton (poorly sorted material with a wide range of particle sizes). Photo by A. Hansel.














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