How To Use moraine In A Sentence
- Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
- Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglacial deposits.
- His desk was a moraine of insignificant papers; his few working notes were always right on his body, in one of his numerous Urrasti pockets. THE DISPOSSESSED
- Old river emptying into Lake Managua reveals fossil bones; moraines east of it are found. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
- Where it was melting a huge pile of boulder clay was built up, as a terminal moraine.
- After lunch we all geologized on till supper, and I was very late turning in, examining the moraine after supper. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
- I stayed off the glacier, stumbling down the left moraine, often catching myself with my arms just before slamming into glacial erratics.
- The plains and valleys here often consist of glacial moraine or deposits from ancient lakes.
- Some of the lakes, dammed by the end/lateral moraine, have been expanded from ponds on the order of 100 m in length.
- It is also likely that mass movement is much more common during periods when glaciers are retreating; large moraines and steep valley sides are then unstable because they are no longer supported by the glacier.
