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  2. Moraine - Wikipedia

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    Moraine may also form by the accumulation of sand and gravel deposits from glacial streams emanating from the ice margin. These fan deposits may coalesce to form a long moraine bank marking the ice margin. [11] Several processes may combine to form and rework a single moraine, and most moraines record a continuum of processes.

  3. Terminal moraine - Wikipedia

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    Terminal moraine of Wordie Glacier, Greenland Map of the Salpausselkä terminal moraines in Southern Finland. A terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated by plucking and abrasion, has been pushed by ...

  4. Oak Ridges Moraine - Wikipedia

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    The Oak Ridges Moraine probably formed in the Late Wisconsin glacial period. Ice melt from the Niagara Escarpment flowed into the western boundaries of the moraine, wherein conduits beneath the ice expanded to form a west-to-east passage between the main Laurentide Ice Sheet and a mass of ice in the Lake Ontario basin.

  5. Marseilles moraine - Wikipedia

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    The Marseilles moraine is a terminal moraine that encircles the southern tip of Lake Michigan in North America. It begins near Elgin, Illinois , and extends south and west of Chicago metropolitan area , turning eastward 30 miles (48 km) to 40 miles (64 km) south of the lake in Kankakee and Iroqouis counties, entering Indiana .

  6. Moraine-dammed lake - Wikipedia

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    A moraine-dammed lake, occurs when the terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. When a glacier retreats, there is a space left over between the retreating glacier and the piece that stayed intact which holds leftover debris . Meltwater from both glaciers seep into this space creating a ribbon-shaped lake due to the ...

  7. List of glacial moraines - Wikipedia

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  8. Origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine - Wikipedia

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    The Oak Ridges Moraine is a geological landform that runs east-west across south central Ontario, Canada. It developed about 12,000 years ago, during the Wisconsin glaciation in North America . A complex ridge of sedimentary material, the moraine is known to have partially developed under water.

  9. Fluvioglacial landform - Wikipedia

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    Terminal moraine refers to the moraine occurring at the point of the furthest advance of a glacier. A recessional moraine is a ridge of deposited debris that occurs when the glacier is stationary for an extended length of time. [27] This occurs when a glacier meaning the glacier is in equilibrium or has halted during retreat .