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
The morainic boulders visible from the camp at the depot were now obscured behind a point to the west of Depot Bay.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
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
Some lakes are due to the blockade of ancient valleys by morainic delms, and this class includes many of the lakes of the Adirondacks, the mountain regions of New England, and the Laurentian area.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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
