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Meanings of moraines in inglés

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Glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris.

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        Examples for "moraine"
        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
        Further Imass now came dragging themselves free of the heaped moraine.
        Assail
        4
        A line of moraine ran from the rocks away in an east-north-east direction.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
        5
        Looking up to the task to accomplish in Chopicalqui moraine camp.
        Climbing Magazine
        Usage of moraines in inglés
        1
        All the rock contours show this, and so do the medial moraines.
        Travels in Alaska
        2
        These three moraines occur on the western slope of the bay.
        Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
        3
        There are no moraines on the surface of the glacier either.
        Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
        4
        Such transverse or crescent-shaped moraines are everywhere the work of glaciers.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 / A Magaz...
        5
        The first rains fell on raw, crumbling moraines and rocks without a plant.
        The Mountains of California
        6
        Note the medial moraines, resulting from junction of ice streams above.
        The Mountain that was 'God' / Being a Little Book About the Grea...
        7
        Indeed, rivers, so far from building up moraines, have often partially destroyed them.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 / A Maga...
        8
        In the mountains west of Kabul glaciers have retired, leaving the moraines perfectly undisturbed.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        9
        All the forests of the Sierra are growing upon moraines.
        The Mountains of California
        10
        As the ice sheet slowly receded it left minor moraines all along its course.
        A History of Science — Volume 3
        11
        The moraines of Girdled Glacier seem scarce to run anywhere.
        Travels in Alaska
        12
        Those in the center are called the medial moraines.
        The Elements of Geology
        13
        Old river emptying into Lake Managua reveals fossil bones; moraines east of it are found.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
        14
        Evident in these channels are the countless, tell-tale markings of bulldozed sediments known as moraines.
        BBC
        15
        The old moraines were numerous and admirably well preserved.
        Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
        16
        But moraines vanish like the glaciers that make them.
        The Mountains of California
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