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A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly...

into the glacial ice. The accumulation of these rocks and sediment together form what is called glacial till when deposited. Push moraines are formed...

This a partial list of glacial moraines. They are arranged by continents and divided by related hydrologic basins. This list is incomplete. Please improve...

glaciation period. Below the approximately 200 metre thick glacial derived sediments of the moraine lies thick bedrock successions of Precambrian rocks and...

rock scouring and scratching, glacial moraines, drumlins, valley cutting, and the deposition of till or tillites and glacial erratics. Successive glaciations...

Moraine Lake is a snow and glacially fed lake in Banff National Park, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. It is...

the moraines are older than 10,000 BP, and probably older than 13,000 BP. The lower moraine level probably corresponds to the main Wisconsin glacial advance...

America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of glacial till and sand. The Valparaiso Moraine defines part of the continental divide known as the...

perviously deposited by falling into an opening of glacial ice. Moraine: Built up mound of glacial till along a spot on the glacier. Feature can be terminal...

permanently free of glacial ice in the range of 13,000 to 12,000 years ago. The Harbor Hill Moraine intersects with the earlier Ronkonkoma Moraine at Lake Success...

The Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking...

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice...

give great insight into past glacial presence and behavior. Landforms that result from these processes include moraines, kames, kettles, eskers, drumlins...

regularly spaced. They consist of glacial drift, with till being the most common constituent. The individual moraines are large, wavy ridges orientated...

lateral moraines of each coalesce to form a moraine in the middle of the combined glacier. Less apparent are ground moraines, also called glacial drift...

Pakistan, and Peru. A glacial lake outburst flood is a type of outburst flood occurring when water dammed by a glacier or a moraine is released. A water...

produced by glacial activity[citation needed]. In Minnesota, the majority of kettles lakes reside in ground moraine and terminal moraine areas. In northeastern...

major part of the Kettle Moraine area is considered interlobate moraine, though other types of moraine features, and other glacial features are common.[citation...

trains or clusters along the lateral moraines as opposed to being located on the terminal moraine or in the general glacial field. Erratics provide an important...

Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment. Till is derived from the erosion and entrainment of material by the moving ice of a glacier. It is deposited...