moraine
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When part of its moraine slid into the lake a little after 10 p.m. on the night of Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The cemetery rests, as well, on heights formed by the Ice Age terminal moraine, while the bedrock schist she imprinted dates even deeper in geological time.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Riding the crest of a moraine created by the receding Easton Glacier, Railroad Grade is aptly named.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
When two tributary glaciers join together, the two lateral moraines combine to form a medial moraine.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Snow-fields stretched down from the pass into the valleys of moraine.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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