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Mass of boulders, etc. left by a glacier
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moraine
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moraine \Mo*raine"\, n. [F. Cf. Prov. G. mur stones broken off, It. mora a heap of stones, hillock, G. m["u]rbe soft, broken up, OHG. muruwi, AS. mearu tender, Gr. ? to cause to wither, Skr. ml[=a] to relax.] (Geol.) An accumulation of earth and stones ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ridge of rock deposited by a glacier," 1789, from French moraine (18c.), from Savoy dialect morena "mound of earth," from Provençal morre "snout, muzzle," from Vulgar Latin *murrum "round object," of unknown origin, perhaps from a pre-Latin Alpine language. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris ( soil and rock ) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum ), through geomorphological processes. Moraines are formed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the base there is a locally derived ground moraine that may be a remnant glacial deposit of much greater antiquity. ▪ It formed a ridge called a terminal moraine . ▪ On the lowlands the ice deposited its load of rock debris, ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 6897 Housing Units (2000): 3127 Land area (2000): 9.070917 sq. miles (23.493566 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.272740 sq. miles (0.706393 sq. km) Total area (2000): 9.343657 sq. miles (24.199959 sq. km) FIPS code: 52010 Located within: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
Usage examples of moraine.
Far beneath in the valley was a small river tortuously flowing along a bouldery bed amid hillocks of old moraines which were like waves of a sea of grass-clad earth.
Between these lurid streams, underlying translucent colors and textures teasingly appeared: glassy seracs of ruby and rubellite, rounded moraines in blue tourmaline and amethyst.
To the west lay the farthest tip of the Storm Margin, its rocky draws and moraines disguised as rolling hills by a thick layer of snow.
For one horrid instant temptation assailed me to press the button before James Skaw could lead the hammock-mules up to the moraine.
The great peaks rose several thousand feet above the glaciers, and then, as now, shattered by sun and frost, poured down their showers of rocks and stones, in witness of which there are the immense piles of angular fragments that constitute the moraines of Ivrea.
So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize.
On the right one saw the black, pointed, rocky summits of the Daubenhorn beside the enormous moraines of the Lommern glacier, above which rose the Wildstrubel.
When he reached the end of the glacier he stopped and asked himself whether the old man had taken that road, and then he began to walk along the moraines with rapid and uneasy steps.
The marl dating from the diluvian times, when the ground moraines formed, contains, as we know, calcium carbonate.
He saw moraines and scree slopes rising behind the three warlocks, the dark sky seeming to throb its blackness overhead.
Hill-sized moraines of mire were pushed along valleys, bulldozed by the intolerable pressure exerted by cubic kilometres of more ooze behind.
A bedrock rib on the far side of the glacier paralleled the one they were on, and the two ribs together looked like old lateral moraines, although really they were just parallel ridges that had channelized the outbreak flood.
Paul’s, now a moraine of blackened stones, congealed roofing-lead, and plague-victims’ jumbled bones.
On the top of this moraine Jean halted, and the party breakfasted, and while they breakfasted Chayne told Sylvia something of that mountain's history.
That much time would take care of any of the superficial signs, I should think, glacial polish or moraines or nanatuks.