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
Consulting geologists cautioned that surrounding valleys were composed of porous glacial moraine unsuitable for water containment.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024
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
When two tributary glaciers join together, the two lateral moraines combine to form a medial moraine.
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
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