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. |