terminal moraine
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of terminal moraine
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Sketch of the terminal moraine topography east of Devil's Lake 104 38.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
These deposits of stratified drift lie partly beyond the terminal moraine, and partly within it.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
