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The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam.

From Time Magazine Archive

At some points in this vicinity the ridge assumes the normal morainic habit, but this is true for short distances only.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

A notable feature of Finland are the �sar or narrow ridges of morainic deposits, more or less reassorted on their surfaces.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

The spot was separated from the mountain-side by a low morainic bank, rising twenty or thirty feet above sea-level.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

Signor Gastaldi has shown that all the ponds in that area consist exclusively of what M. de Mortillet has denominated morainic lakes, i.e. caused by barriers of glacier-mud and stones.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir