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The medial moraine is the double line of debris running down the centre-line of the glacier. Lateral moraines can rise up to 140 meters (460 ft) over the valley floor ...
Terminal moraine of Wordie Glacier, Greenland Map of the Salpausselkä terminal moraines in Southern Finland. A terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated by plucking and abrasion, has been pushed by ...
Kettle Moraine is a large moraine in the state of Wisconsin, United States. It stretches from Walworth County in the south to Kewaunee County in the north. It has also been referred to as the Kettle Range and, in geological texts, as the Kettle Interlobate Moraine .
Rogen moraine – Sweden, Norway; Lake Rogen – Sweden; Pulju moraine – Finland; Salpausselkä – Finland; Sevetti moraine – Finland; Trollgarden – Norway; Veiki moraine – Sweden, Norway; Raet - Norway, Sweden, Finland; La Serra morainic amphitheater of Ivrea - Piedmont, Italy
PPhysiography of the Valparaiso Moraine. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a landform left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of glacial till and sand.
Moraine is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. Situated on the banks of the Great Miami River , Moraine is an inner suburb of Dayton, Ohio and a part of the Dayton metropolitan area .
The Harbor Hill Moraine, skirting the North Shore, represents the terminal moraine of the most recent advance of the Wisconsinian glaciation, which reached its most southward advance about 18,000 years ago; the earlier Ronkonkoma Moraine, much cut through by outwash streams from the Harbor Hill Moraine, lies to the southeast.
The Ronkonkoma Moraine, a terminal moraine, predates the Harbor Hill Moraine (which reached Long Island during the Wisconsin Glacial Episode); the Harbor Hill Moraine cut through the Ronkonkoma Moraine's western portions. [2] The Ronkonkoma Moraine and the Harbor Hill Moraine intersect at Lake Success in western Nassau County. [2]