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Definition of Moraines
1. moraine [n] - See also: moraine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moraines
Literary usage of Moraines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"moraines, lateral, medial and terminal, are the general detritus of a glacier
... The medial moraines, of which each glacier usually has one fewer than the ..."
2. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Geological Survey, Edward Hitchcock (1841)
"1 find it often very difficult to recognise the different sorts of moraines ;
but think the lateral moraines most common and distinct. ..."
3. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"The characteristics of such abandoned moraines are frequently well exhibited ...
Lateral moraines. — The debris accumulated on the borders of an ice stream, ..."
4. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"The characteristics of such abandoned moraines are frequently well exhibited ...
Lateral moraines. — The débris accumulated on the borders of an ice stream, ..."
5. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Submarginal moraines. — Another kind of moraine is formed under the sides of a
... This should not be confused with the lateral moraines of the surface (p. ..."
6. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"Sub marginal moraines. — Another kind of moraine is formed under the sides of a
... This should not be confused with the lateral moraines of the surface (p. ..."
7. Physiography by Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"Lateral moraines of valley glaciers are much more likely to remain after the ice
is gone than the corresponding terminal moraines, for the latter are more ..."
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