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Moraines can be classified either by origin, location with respect to a glacier or former glacier, or by shape. [13] The first approach is suitable for moraines associated with contemporary glaciers—but more difficult to apply to old moraines, which are defined by their particular morphology, since their origin is debated. Some moraine types ...
Terminal moraines are one of the most prominent types of moraines in the Arctic. One notable terminal moraine is Trollgarden in Norway , once thought to be magically constructed by trolls . In North America, the Outer Lands is a name given to the terminal moraine archipelago of the northeastern region of the United States ( Cape Cod , Martha's ...
The Lake Erie basin has two moraines of the same age as the Valparaiso Moraine, the Mississinewa Moraine and the Union Moraine. These moraines formed from the Lake Erie Lobe of the continental glacier. In Michigan the Kalamazoo Moraine is of the same time period. It is the result of the Saginaw lobe of the Laurentian glacier. [9]
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Colors represent moraines from the same time period of the Wisconsin Glacial epoch The Fort Wayne Moraine is considered contemporary to the last stages of the Valparaiso Moraine . Centered on Fort Wayne, Indiana , the northern leg of the moraine is mostly overlaid by the younger Wabash Moraine angling northeastward through Williams County, Ohio .
The "Outer Lands" coloured in green. The Outer Lands is the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States. This eight-county region of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York comprises the peninsula of Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, the Elizabeth Islands, Block Island, and Long Island, as well as ...
The Lake Border Moraine (also called the Lake Border Morainic System) is a complex group of moraines bordering the southern end of Lake Michigan. It can be traced north along the eastern shore of the lake basin and across the highlands between the northern Lake Michigan and Saginaw Bay.
Lake Rogen, Sweden as seen from the north. The forested ridges in the lake are 'Rogen moraines' of which this is the type location. A Rogen moraine, also called ribbed moraine, is a subglacially (i.e. under a glacier or ice sheet) formed type of moraine landform, [1] that mainly occurs in Fennoscandia, [1] Scotland, [2] Ireland [3] and Canada.