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Example sentences for "terminal moraines"

  • Kames, New York] Kames are sand and gravel knolls, associated for the most part with terminal moraines, and heaped by glacial waters along the margin of the ice.

  • Outwash plains are plains of sand and gravel which frequently border terminal moraines on their outward face, and were spread evidently by outwash from the melting ice.

  • More than this, I had noticed that upland valleys, in which no local or terminal moraines occur, are usually clothed and paved with boulder-clay throughout.

  • A double line of terminal moraines, traced from Hango Head on the Gulf of Finland, north-east to beyond Joensuu, puts this beyond doubt.

  • Outwash plains are plains of sand and gravel which frequently border terminal moraines on their outward face, and were spread evidently by outwash from the melting ice.

  • KAMES are sand and gravel knolls, associated for the most part with terminal moraines, and heaped by glacial waters along the margin of the ice.

  • In North America all the indubitable signs of glacial action are found over the entire area of New England, the southern coast being bordered by a double line of terminal moraines.

  • From the eastern Alps, glaciers descended through all the valleys of the Italian lakes and deposited vast terminal moraines, which still obstruct the drainage, and produce the charming lakes of that region.

  • In short, fiords seem essentially to be submerged river gorges, partially silted up near their mouths, or perhaps partially closed by terminal moraines.

  • On the lower lands, the terminal moraine of the Devil's lake region has the features characteristic of terminal moraines in general.

  • Undrained depressions are found in the ground moraine, but they are, as a rule, broader and shallower than the "kettles" common to terminal moraines.

  • Down valley, however, glacial deposits occur in the form of terminal moraines of recession and ground moraines.

  • At the valley heads are a full complement of glacial features, such as cirques, hanging valleys, reversed slopes, terminal moraines, and valley trains.


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