Look up: moraine

1. moraine
   n. A mound or ridge of sediment deposited by a glacier; lateral moraine- n. deposited to the side of a glacier; terminal moraine- n. deposited to the front of a glacier; ground moraine- n. deposited on the land surface.
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2. Moraine
   An accumulation of earth, stones, etc., deposited by a glacier, usually in the form of a mound, ridge or other prominence on the terrain.
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3. moraine
   [n] - accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
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4. Moraine
   These are piles of debris left behind by melting glaciers. Unlike an erratic, which is a single block of rock perched on top of the land, moraines are huge piles of various sizes of rocks, gravel and sand. They can form a variety of features such as long linear ‘kames`, which snake across vall...
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5. moraine
   an accumulation of earth and stone carried along and finally deposited bya glacier Category: The cosmos
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6. Moraine
   Mo·raine' noun [ French Confer Prov. German mur stones broken off, Italian mora a heap of stones, hillock, German mürbe soft, broken up, Old High German muruwi , Anglo-Saxon mearu tender, Greek ... to cause to wither...
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7. moraine
   <geology> An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. ... If the moranie is at the extremity of the glacier it is a terminal moranie; if at the side, a lateral moranie; if parallel to the side on the central portion of the glacier, a medial moranie. In the l...
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8. moraine
   noun accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
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9. Moraine
   • (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
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10. moraine
    accumulation of rock debris (till) carried or deposited by a glacier. The material, which ranges in size from blocks or boulders (usually faceted or ... [8 related articles]
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11. Moraine
    A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (soil and rock) which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced...
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12. Moraine
    A hill of glacial till deposited directly by a glacier.
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13. moraine
    August 1968 southwest-looking photograph of the surface of the Bucher Glacier, an outlet glacier of the Juneau Icefield, showing several glacier tables, several conical mounds of sediment-covered ice, and several small piles of sediment left on the ice surface marking the position of former mounds, ...
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14. moraine
    moraine (murān') , a formation composed of unsorted and unbedded rock and soil debris called till, which was deposited by a glacier. The till that falls on the sides of a valley glacier from the bounding cliffs makes up lateral moraines, running parallel to the valley sides. When two or mo...
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15. Moraine
    In geography, a moraine is a continuous line of rocks and gravel along the edges of a glacier.
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16. moraine
    Rocky debris or till carried along and deposited by a glacier. Material eroded from the side of a glaciated valley and carried along the glacier's edge is called a lateral moraine; that worn from the valley floor and carried along the base of the glacier is called a ground moraine. Rubble dro...
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