moraine

Example Sentences

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The small island, measuring roughly 30 metres across and a peak of about three metres, consists of seabed mud as well as moraine - soil and rock left behind by moving glaciers.

From Reuters

“Unsolaced,” her latest book, opens “in an off-grid cabin set on a glacial moraine” in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.

From New York Times

Geologists already know where: Mountainous piles of debris, called terminal moraines, record the farthest thrust of an advancing glacier.

From Science Magazine

Some glacial lakes sit in bowl-shaped depressions bordered by glacial moraine, the often unstable rocky rubble left behind by a retreating glacier.

From New York Times

Bowman began sprinting across the glacial moraine that covers the final paces to Cougar Rock Campground, where he had started the day at 4 a.m.

From Seattle Times