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Meanings of terminal moraines in English
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Usage of terminal moraines in English
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Can he refer to terminalmoraines alone when he says fragments in moraines are rounded?
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Yet how can so experienced an observer as A. be deceived about lateral and terminalmoraines?
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It is older than the Wisconsin, for in many places it passes underneath the Wisconsin terminalmoraines.
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The glaciers could not form such sheets; they deposit their material in long ridges called " terminalmoraines."
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More than a hundred almost reach the sea, from which they are separated by detrital lowland or terminalmoraines.
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Behind the terminalmoraines lie wide till plains, in places studded thickly with drumlins, or ridged with an occasional esker.
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Those at the edge are called lateral moraines, those in the middle, medial moraines, and those at the end, terminalmoraines.
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The terminalmoraines (those which are pushed in front of the glaciers) cover something like twenty square miles of country.
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Indeed, the terminalmoraines of the Wisconsin drift may often be roughly traced on maps by means of belts of lakes and ponds.
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Most of them carry an extraordinary amount of debris, to be deposited in lateral or terminalmoraines, or dropped in streams which they feed.
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Still more numerous are the lakes set in hollows among the hills of the terminalmoraines; such as the thousands of lakelets of eastern Massachusetts.
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To the geological student, especially one interested in glacial phenomena, the lateral and terminalmoraines of Fallen Leaf Lake are of marked and unusual interest.
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KAMES are sand and gravel knolls, associated for the most part with terminalmoraines, and heaped by glacial waters along the margin of the ice.
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A broad belt of wood, growing, as Agassiz afterward found, on an accumulation of old terminalmoraines, spanned the lower valley from side to side.