moraine

Example Sentences

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Apart from a moraine collapsing, an avalanche or an unusual amount of rainfall can destabilize a lake.

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

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