moraine

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When part of its moraine slid into the lake a little after 10 p.m. on the night of Oct.

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

In valley glaciers, moraine also includes material falling on the sides of the glacier by mass wasting from the valley walls.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer