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What is a moraine?

What is a moraine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
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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.
A moraine is the ground up debris consisting of everything from giant boulders to fine rock powder which a glacier leaves behind.
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.
Soon the moraine squeezes against the river, and Asia and I are forced to hop boulder to slippery boulder.
Boulder clay, the most widespread deposit, represents the ground moraine of the ice sheet.

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