moraine
noun
a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
morainic
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a word derived from
moraine.
Example Sentences
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The massive landslide tumbles into a lake beneath the summit, breaking its natural morainic dam.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Sir Charles Lyell
Seen from the west, the moraine just north of the south quartzite range stands up as a conspicuous ridge twenty to forty feet above the morainic plain which abuts against it.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
Devil's lake then occupies an unfilled portion of an old river valley, isolated by great morainic dams from its surface continuations on either hand.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
A section of the valley may have been blockaded with morainic waste, and the lake formed behind the barrier may have found outlet over the country to one side of the ancient drift-filled valley.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
