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Example sentences for "terminal moraine"

  • In eastern Pennsylvania we found indeed a terminal moraine more or less distinctly marking the southern border over the highlands.

  • Almost any of the railroad excavations in the city of Brooklyn present an interesting object-lesson respecting the composition of a terminal moraine.

  • The most distinctive feature of a terminal moraine is not its ridge-like character, but its peculiar topography.

  • These deposits of stratified drift lie partly beyond the terminal moraine, and partly within it.

  • A terminal moraine is not the sharp and continuous ridge we are wont to think it.

  • Its limit in this region is marked by a ridge-like accumulation of drift, the terminal moraine, which here has a general north-south direction.

  • Guyot calls the frontal or terminal moraine of the eastern prolongation of the old glacier.

  • The talus-covered mass in the center (B) is a terminal moraine topped by the dirt-stained glacier that descends from the crest.

  • Terminal moraine in the glaciated Choquetira Valley below Choquetira.

  • There, also, as at Lake Tahoe, we find them terminating abruptly in the plain without any sign of terminal moraine.

  • From the surface of the little lake the curving branches of the main moraine, meeting below the lake to form a terminal moraine, are very distinct.

  • Clearly, then, the till is not of the nature of a terminal moraine.

  • And Professor Agassiz gives us, on page 307 of the same work, the above representation of a "terminal moraine.

  • The line of farthest southern advance of the ice is shown by the "Terminal Moraine," stretching across country, which put the obstructions into the "Foul Rift.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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