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Bookmark or Share- Moraine - National Geographic SocietyA moraine is material left behind by a moving glacier. This material is usually soil and rock . Just as rivers carry along all sorts of debris and silt that eventually builds up to form deltas , glaciers transport all sorts of dirt and boulders that build up to form moraines.
- Moraine Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of MORAINE is an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier.
- Terminal moraine - WikipediaA terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated by plucking and abrasion, has been pushed by the front edge of the ice, is driven no further and instead is deposited in an unsorted pile of sediment.
- Glacial Landforms: What Is A Moraine? - WorldAtlasMoraine is a material that is transported by the glacier then deposited. These materials range in size from large blocks or boulders to sand and clay. The materials are not stratified at the point of deposition by the glacier and show no sorting or bedding.
- Moraine - WikipediaA moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.
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