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

Material carried by the glacier is called moraine, which is an accumulation of glacial till produced by the grinding and erosive effects of a glacier.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The route climbed up and down the unsettled rocks of the Khumbu Glacier’s lateral moraine for several miles, then dropped down onto the glacier itself.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer