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
The clouds were just coming up as we halted on the medial moraine.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
July 16.—I made an early start with two coolies at 2.45 a.m. and followed the medial moraine to the Island.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Each branch thus adds a medial moraine, and by counting the number of medial moraines of a trunk stream one may learn of how many branches it is composed.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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