moraine

Example Sentences

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Apart from a moraine collapsing, an avalanche or an unusual amount of rainfall can destabilize a lake.

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

Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer