terminal moraine

American  

noun

Geology.

1. a moraine marking the farthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet.

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terminal moraine Scientific  

1. See under moraine

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Etymology

Origin of terminal moraine

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

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

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 Atwood, Wallace W.

There are many hillocks of a general kame-like habit associated with the terminal moraine south of the main quartzite range, and north of the Wisconsin river.

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