Look up: moraine

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   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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   Moraine
   Moraine is a township in Grand Forks County North Dakota, USA Moraine is a city in Montgomery County Ohio, USA
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   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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   moraine
   [n] - accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
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   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 valleys, or dumpy hillock-like ‘drumlins` depending on how t...
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   moraine
   an accumulation of earth and stone carried along and finally deposited bya glacier Category: The cosmos
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   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, Sanskrit mlā to relax.] (Geol.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier. Lyell. ...
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   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 last case it is formed by the union of the lateral m ...
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   moraine
   noun accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
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    Moraine
    `Moraine` refers to any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past ice age. This debris may have been plucked off the valley floor as a glacier advanced or fallen off the valley walls as a result of frost wedging. Moraines may be composed of silt like glacial flour to large boulders. The debris is typically angular. Moraines...
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    Moraine
    • (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
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    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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    Moraine
    A hill of glacial till deposited directly by a glacier.
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    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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    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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