MORAINE


Meaning of MORAINE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At the base there is a locally derived ground moraine that may be a remnant glacial deposit of much greater antiquity.

It formed a ridge called a terminal moraine .

On the lowlands the ice deposited its load of rock debris, or moraine .

Skipping down old moraine we reached the banks of the Shyok, more than 160 miles above our last crossing point.

Terminal moraines have blocked some rivers, producing long ribbon lakes.

The sharp rocks, or moraine , which were stuck in the glaciers caused them to scrape out the valleys much deeper.

We are starting with an old farm, while nature may have started with a glacial moraine ten thousand years ago.

Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up, as a terminal moraine .

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