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Sentence Examples A substantial recessional moraine accumulated at the junction of the three tributary glaciers at this position. In the distance, you can see other camps rising raggedly out of the moraine, each looking like it has just been through a ruinous siege. The host plant is an early successional, evergreen, nitrogen-fixing subshrub that grows on glacial moraine and river bars. Board walks take walkers through bog and tussock up to a moraine ridge overlooking the Otira Valley. The track follows the glacial moraine on a level track to the Buller River outlet. Soon the moraine squeezes against the river, and Asia and I are forced to hop boulder to slippery boulder. Stones plinked out of the frozen face and rolled musically onto the moraine. It is on actively moving glacier ice covered by rock debris called ablation or surface moraine. A medial moraine is a strip of morainal debris in the middle of glacier ice which marks where two glaciers come together. I stayed off the glacier, stumbling down the left moraine, often catching myself with my arms just before slamming into glacial erratics. The plains and valleys here often consist of glacial moraine or deposits from ancient lakes. The construction of high-density housing will make much of the ground impermeable and thus will reduce recharge to the moraine. We passed the trident, crossed over the hill and tumbled down a moraine the far side, our feet slipping on the loose rock. Boulder clay, the most widespread deposit, represents the ground moraine of the ice sheet. A moraine is the ground up debris consisting of everything from giant boulders to fine rock powder which a glacier leaves behind. The other side of the Byrdbreen has a series of Haugan nunataks with a very long and sparse moraine. The next day the others who had skiied in to a terminal moraine failed to appear. As the ice retreated, it deposited, among other landmarks, the terminal moraine called Long Island. The terminal moraine crests nearby in East Northport, marking the end of the ice pack's southward journey. This gentle ridge, called by geologists a terminal moraine, lifts Scuttlehole Road above the rich farmland that slopes southward to the sea. Show More Sentences Standing solidly at the foot of the renowned north face of the Matterhorn, Stafel is a terminal moraine of the Z'Mutt glacier. The topography in this area is classified as undulating to gently rolling, with moraine surficial deposits predominating. As the glacier retreated, it left behind mucky ground moraine covering vast areas. We cross the moraine and the blue ice and seem to be moving for a long time without getting any closer to Bratnipane resembles from outer space. Field work for the study included hydrogeological characterization of key buried valleys and stratified moraine aquifers. Deposits of ground moraine, end moraine and undifferentiated glacial drift are shown along with trends of minor moraine. The stratigraphic and sedimentological framework of the moraine is being studied at an outcrop scale. This analysis should help to identify the principal flow barriers within the moraine. The moraine is approximately 195,000 hectares in area, 160 kilometres long and between 3 and 24 kilometres wide. They can also occur following the bursting of a natural dam formed by landslide debris, glacial moraine, or glacier ice. Coherent ice-flow lines reconstructed from bedforms across the Irish lowlands indicate contemporaneity of drumlinization and moraine building in eastern and western Ireland. Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death. Not until after midnight, in an eerie twilight, do we sideslip around a medial moraine and discover two gigantic black holes in the silver glacier. The rolling hills of northern Wisconsin's glacial kettle moraine are densely forested with hardwoods, birch and aspen and pitted with potholes and lakes. End moraine size and shape are determined by whether the glacier is advancing, receding or at equilibrium. The lower moraine level probably corresponds to the main Wisconsin glacial advance. Esker formation presumably takes place after a glacier stagnates, because movement of the ice would likely spread the material and produce ground moraine. In the centuries between the founding of the Old Town and the beginning of the New Town, Edinburgh eased itself down the southern flank of the moraine. For centuries the barrier to northward expansion was the lake and encircling marsh the North Loch, or Nor' Loch that choked the valley along the foot of the moraine and the Castle Rock. The impact of landing drove his lower leg up through the right knee joint. Against all the odds, Mr Simpson escaped from his mountain tomb and dragged himself to safety over six miles of glacial moraine. Show More Sentences Some visually dominant landforms in the area are the St. Narcisse terminal moraine on the north side of the St. Lawrence River, and the Drummondville and Highland Front moraines of the south shore. In small areas, kames may form the terminal moraine. There it augmented the bulk of the original moraine and kame plateau by superposing a layer of diamict over the older deposits. On the lake's western shores there are large moraine systems of which the innermost belong to the last glacial period. This zone also represents the provincially significant Eagle-Finlayson moraine and associated features such as outwash, lacustrine and ground moraine deposits. On Earth the ridge would be called the terminal moraine of an alpine glacier. Eidfjord village sits on the moraine forming an eid between Eidfjordvatnet lake and Eidfjorden branch of Hardangerfjord. Geologically, the feature is most likely a moraine, formed during the Pleistocene. Active processes form or rework moraine sediment directly by the movement of ice, known as glaciotectonism. These fan deposits may coalesce to form a long moraine bank marking the ice margin. Several processes may combine to form and rework a single moraine, and most moraines record a continuum of processes. The lake districts form part of the Baltic Ridge, a series of moraine belts along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea. The longer the terminus of the glacier stays in one place, the more debris accumulate in the moraine. After a glacier retreats, the end moraine may be destroyed by postglacial erosion. Recessional moraines are often observed as a series of transverse ridges running across a valley behind a terminal moraine. A medial moraine is a ridge of moraine that runs down the center of a valley floor. A Veiki moraine is a kind of hummocky moraine that forms irregular landscapes of ponds and plateaus surrounded by banks. The bank originated as a terminal moraine of a glacier during one of the Ice Ages. Most soil consists of moraine, a grayish yellow mixture of sand and rocks, with a thin layer of humus on top. A glacial lake outburst flood is a type of outburst flood occurring when water dammed by a glacier or a moraine is released. Show More Sentences Although the lake is natural, in 1902 a shallow weir was added to what is probably a glacial moraine to maintain the level. The lack of a retaining moraine means that this hollow has no tarn, Comb Beck running uninterrupted to the Lake. The main glacial front was at Escrick where the Escrick moraine marks its furthest extension. The bulk of the land on Cape Cod consists of glacial landforms, formed by terminal moraine and outwash plains. Physically, it extends over most of the nonmountainous areas of the arctic islands and the western portion consists mostly of lowland plains covered with glacial moraine. The moraine landscape of northern Poland contains soils made up mostly of sand or loam, while the ice age river valleys of the south often contain loess. Medial moraines are formed when two different glaciers merge and the lateral moraines of each coalesce to form a moraine in the middle of the combined glacier. The soils are formed mainly of Devonian dolomite, dolomite marlstone, and clay bedrocks, moraine clayey material, sandy eolic and alluvial deposits. The valley was blocked by a terminal moraine in the area of the village of Bala, thus forming the lake, which has remarkably straight and parallel sides. The valley floor is made from glacial drift tails and moraine. It is much more bouldery than areas to the south, and Gregory found that soluble carbonates increase from a few percent to over 17 percent in this moraine. From north east of England, the cliffs become lower and are composed of less resistant moraine, which erodes more easily, so that the coasts have more rounded contours. The Escrick moraine extends across the vale from west to east and the York moraine, 8 miles further north, forms a similar curving ridge from York eastwards to Sand Hutton. Veiki moraine is common in northern Sweden and parts of Canada. In the north the levels merge into the slightly more undulating Vale of York close to the Escrick glacial moraine, and to the south merge into the Trent Vale. Examples from Classical Literature The terminal moraine is the dumping-ground of this mass of material, where the ice river melts. It was a lodgepole pine sixty or seventy feet away and several feet lower than my stand, on the side of a moraine. Two Indians carried the baggage over the rocky moraine to the clear glacier at the side of one of the eastern nunatak Islands. On the medial moraine one mile from the front there was no measureable displacement. I had not known that I lived on a moraine, and now that I knew it, I did not care. A new site was selected on a moraine, only a short distance from the old one. A good example of an outwash plain occurs southwest of Baraboo, flanking the moraine on the west. From this point north to the Baraboo river the moraine scarcely rises above the edge of the outwash beyond. This horn has been sent Arthur by Mangounz, king of moraine. Toward evening I clambered down to the cottage by moraine Lake. The moraine Colony was closely embowered in a pitchy forest. On the opposite side were the slope and summit of the moraine. It was on the moraine side of the river that we made our camp. The postglacial cut through the moraine is about ninety feet deep. We descended a ticklish path in the steep side of the moraine, and invaded the glacier. A descent of 600 feet in the next two miles takes us to moraine Meadows. The clouds were just coming up as we halted on the medial moraine. To understand this, however, I must first explain what a moraine is. Find more words! 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