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  • Glacial Till: Understanding Unsorted, Angular Rock Deposits
    The most probable arrangement of rock particles deposited directly by a glacier is unsorted and angular. Here's why:

    * Unsorted: Glaciers act like giant bulldozers, picking up rocks of all sizes from the landscape. They don't have the ability to sort the material by size like a river does. This leads to a mix of boulders, pebbles, sand, and silt all jumbled together.

    * Angular: Glaciers grind rocks together as they move, creating sharp, angular edges. This is in contrast to river-deposited sediment, which tends to be more rounded from abrasion.

    This type of deposit is called glacial till. It's a characteristic feature of glacial environments and can be used to identify past glacial activity.

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