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

A pool at the east edge of the moraine at the glacier’s bottom-fed Thielsen Creek and formed a miniature ecosystem.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021

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 moraine that represents the farthest advance of the glacier is a terminal moraine.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Snow-fields stretched down from the pass into the valleys of moraine.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin