moraine

Example Sentences

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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 type of moraine depends on its location.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

All that one could see and feel and hear—of Icefall, moraine, avalanche, cold—was of a world not intended for human habitation.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer