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Meanings of terminal moraine in anglès

portuguès
morena terminal
català
morrena terminal
espanyol
lengua glaciar

Glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated debris at the edge of a glacier.

morrena terminal
Usage of terminal moraine in anglès
1
Through their glasses they could sweep the glacier to its terminal moraine.
In Secret
2
The frozen deposits in my terminal moraine would furnish me with the means.
My Terminal Moraine / 1892
3
Luck brought me down to the terminal moraine without a fall.
Climbing Magazine
4
The ship continued to descend toward a great forest near a terminal moraine.
Operation: Outer Space
5
The terminal moraine is jumbled, and it took awhile to navigate.
Climbing Magazine
6
White River Canyon, from the terminal moraine of White Glacier.
The Mountain that was 'God' / Being a Little Book About the Grea...
7
To these combined glaciers the formation of the terminal moraine of Thun must be ascribed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 / A Maga...
8
The terminal moraine, near the hut, Cape Denison
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
9
The next day the others who had skiied in to a terminal moraine failed to appear.
The new yorker
10
And through all the long procession of centuries that broken end of the glacier has been lying in your terminal moraine.
My Terminal Moraine / 1892
11
A similar ridge, formed by the accumulation of rock fragments at the lower end of the glacier, is a terminal moraine.
The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
12
The younger drift is bordered by a distinct terminal moraine, while the margin of the older drift is not thus marked.
The Elements of Geology
13
And Professor Agassiz gives us, on page 307 of the same work, the above representation of a " terminal moraine."
Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
14
When the glacier began to shrink it left its terminal moraine as a dam between the basin above and the river below.
The Lake of the Sky / Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of Californ...
15
A portion of the terminal moraine had been plowed up and shoved forward, uprooting and overwhelming the woods on the east side.
Stickeen
16
The evidence for this is found in the presence of a continuous, terminal moraine, at or just in advance of the present ice-front.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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Translations for terminal moraine
portuguès
morena terminal
Terminal moraine across language varieties
United Kingdom
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