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  2. Moraine - Wikipedia

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    Moraine-dammed lake – Type of lake formed by glaciation; Terminal moraine – Type of moraine that forms at the terminal of a glacier; Rogen moraine – Landform of ridges deposited by a glacier or ice sheet transverse to ice flow; Kame; Moraine examples. Dogger Bank – Large sandbank in the North Sea; Kettle Moraine – Large moraine in ...

  3. Moraine-dammed lake - Wikipedia

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    Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. 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 ...

  4. Moraine Lake - Wikipedia

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    Moraine Lake is a snow and glacially fed lake in Banff National Park, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. It is situated in the Valley of the Ten Peaks , at an elevation of approximately 1,884 metres (6,181 ft).

  5. Proglacial lake - Wikipedia

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    Tarn—a proglacial lake impounded by the terminal moraine of the retreating Schoolroom Glacier in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier , a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic ...

  6. Terminal moraine - Wikipedia

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    A terminal moraine creates a barrier helping to trap water in a newly-formed glacial lake. The positioning of the lake resulted from not only subsidence, but also the terminal moraine providing the foundation for the wall that holds the water in place. While the terminal moraine consists of a long mound of rock and sediment which forms a ...

  7. List of glacial moraines - Wikipedia

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    Rogen moraine – Sweden, Norway; Lake Rogen – Sweden; Pulju moraine – Finland; Salpausselkä – Finland; Sevetti moraine – Finland; Trollgarden – Norway; Veiki moraine – Sweden, Norway; Raet - Norway, Sweden, Finland; La Serra morainic amphitheater of Ivrea - Piedmont, Italy

  8. Kettle Moraine - Wikipedia

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    The moraine was created when the Green Bay Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, on the west, collided with the Lake Michigan Lobe of that glacier, on the east, depositing sediment. The western lobe formed Green Bay, Lake Winnebago and the Horicon Marsh .

  9. Valparaiso Moraine - Wikipedia

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    PPhysiography of the Valparaiso Moraine. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a landform left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of glacial till and sand.