debris

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During the collecting a mass of débris and dirt is apt to be thrown into the bottle, and when this is the case the alcohol should be changed even during short excursions.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

He hastened forward, and presently blundered into one of the great heaps of sifted débris.

From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Gilson, Charles

The streams that flow from the mountain-tops are absorbed far up by the slopes of débris and never reach the shore.

From The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by Knight, E. F. (Edward Frederick)

It is covered with slaty débris, and, what struck me as very remarkable, quantities of a substance resembling coarse white marble, totally different from the Cape itself.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

From De Saussure142 downwards it has been pointed out, time after time, that moraines are chiefly formed from débris coming from rocks or soil above the ice, not from the bed over which it passes.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward