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terminal moraine
noun
- a moraine marking the farthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet.
terminal moraine
- See under moraine
Word History and Origins
Origin of terminal moraine1
Example Sentences
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.
He points out how this “terminal moraine” versus “outwash plain” dichotomy roughly aligns with the path of gentrification, whereby the flatlands remain the province of “immigrant strivers and working-class stiffs.”
The largest deposits form what geologists call a terminal moraine.
The terminal moraine, the mounds of rubble left behind, form much of their high ground.
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.
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