medial moraine
Americannoun
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When two tributary glaciers join together, the two lateral moraines combine to form a medial moraine.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The center line of the glacier, known as the medial moraine, was strewn with boulders that had tumbled and drifted down from the peak.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
A medial moraine runs along the glacier, commencing as a narrow streak, but towards the end the moraine extending in width, until finally it quite covers the terminal portion of the glacier.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
If a glacier have but two branches, it will have only one medial moraine; if it have three branches, it will have two medial moraines; if n branches, it will have n-1 medial moraines.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
On the medial moraine one mile from the front there was no measureable displacement.
From Travels in Alaska by Muir, John
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