terminal moraine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of terminal moraine
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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The cemetery rests, as well, on heights formed by the Ice Age terminal moraine, while the bedrock schist she imprinted dates even deeper in geological time.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
The end moraine that represents the farthest advance of the glacier is a terminal moraine.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
At the foot of the cañon there is a lake formed in part at least by the damming of the stream by a terminal moraine.
From My First Summer in the Sierra by Muir, John
Having climbed a great terminal moraine, and tramped for a considerable time amid loose shingle and boulders, we came upon the ice.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John
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