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

Further evidence of the great activity of water near the margin of the ice is to be seen in the relatively large amount of assorted and stratified sand and gravel associated with the terminal moraine.

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

One result of its greater activity may be seen in the greater coarseness which generally characterizes the material of the terminal moraine as compared with that of the adjacent ground moraine.

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