medial moraine

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a ridge of glacial drift formed by the junction of two converging valley glaciers.

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That night Gasol hobbled off his home court with a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
The Nate Silver of Sports Injuries|Evin Demirel|May 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling|Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The aponeurosis crosses the medial side of the insertion of M. pterygoideus dorsalis medialis.
Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves|Robert L. Merz
We now put on the rope again, and so crossed the easy glacier which led down to the moraine on which I had been two months before.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury

Ultimately I struggled across the glacier, bearing various burdens, to meet them as they came down on a parallel moraine.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
I camped, at about 19,500 feet, on the moraine-covered glacier opposite the junction of the northerly branch from Pks.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
A terminal moraine, a mile and a half in depth, separates it from the sea.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska|Charles Warren Stoddard