moraine

Example Sentences

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Apart from a moraine collapsing, an avalanche or an unusual amount of rainfall can destabilize a lake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The cemetery rests, as well, on heights formed by the Ice Age terminal moraine, while the bedrock schist she imprinted dates even deeper in geological time.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

The end of the glacial moraine is at mile 3, but the trail continues for another half-mile before deteriorating.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2021

When two tributary glaciers join together, the two lateral moraines combine to form a medial moraine.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The route climbed up and down the unsettled rocks of the Khumbu Glacier’s lateral moraine for several miles, then dropped down onto the glacier itself.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer