moraine

Example Sentences

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Consulting geologists cautioned that surrounding valleys were composed of porous glacial moraine unsuitable for water containment.

From Seattle Times

Locating these moraines enabled the researchers to map older glacier extents before pilots took their first flyover photos in the early 1930s.

From Science Daily

Now, he was on that titular mountain with his fiancée: walking a precarious bridge, crossing jagged moraines and traversing rocky terrain on a nine-day trek to the Everest base camp.

From Seattle Times

They attribute the disaster to the failure of the moraines, characterised by loose boulders, rocks and soil at the edge of the glacial lake.

From BBC

It flowed inexorably from the mountain’s crest, gouging a bowl-shaped basin out of the rock and pushing debris into a rubble pile called a moraine.

From Washington Post