lateral moraine

noun

, Geology.

1. a moraine formed at the side of a glacier.

lateral moraine

1. See under moraine

Example Sentences

The right lateral moraine is well defined, and is still partially covered with snow.

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At our right was the glacier of the Roththal, along the lateral moraine of which our route lay.

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The glacier becoming impracticable through crevasses, we retreated to its eastern shore, and got along the lateral moraine.

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This, however, was quite exceptional, and may be the lateral moraine of a local glacier.

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Abundant fragments of both the oxide and the sulphide ores are mined from the lateral moraine of a nearby glacier.

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