: an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier
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One is called Moraine, not lemon meringue, like moraine, like for a glacial moraine.
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Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
The undulating sand forms immense ridges and valleys atop glacial moraines bluffs.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023
Rainfall, landslides, earthquakes, or rising water pressure can all be catalysts to a moraine shifting and crumbling, releasing a dangerous wall of water down the mountain.
—WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
When glaciers hold back lakes Some glacial lakes are dammed by moraines – mounds of rock and debris that are left behind as a glacier retreats.
—Brianna Rick, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
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Steve Bender, Southern Living, 3 July 2024
The undulating sand forms immense ridges and valleys atop glacial moraines bluffs.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023
Rainfall, landslides, earthquakes, or rising water pressure can all be catalysts to a moraine shifting and crumbling, releasing a dangerous wall of water down the mountain.
—WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
When glaciers hold back lakes Some glacial lakes are dammed by moraines – mounds of rock and debris that are left behind as a glacier retreats.
—Brianna Rick, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2023
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moraine
noun
mo·raine
mə-ˈrān 
: a pile of earth and stones carried and deposited by a glacier
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