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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 ...
Moraines south of Lake Michigan and southwest of Lake Erie. A composite of three maps (Leverett 1915) (Leverett 1902) (Larsen 1986) and other sources. Colors represent moraines from the same time period of the Wisconsin Glacial epoch. The Marseilles moraine is a terminal moraine that encircles the southern tip of Lake Michigan in North America.
1.3 Moraines of the Maritimes of Canada and NE United ... 1.5 Moraines of the Great Plains of the United States. ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide ...
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]
Kettle Moraine is a large moraine in the state of Wisconsin, United States. It stretches from Walworth County in the south to Kewaunee County in the north. It has also been referred to as the Kettle Range and, in geological texts, as the Kettle Interlobate Moraine .
Ground moraines are formed with melts out of the glacier in irregular heaps, forming rolling hills. Till plains are common in areas such as the Midwestern United States, due to multiple glaciation events that occurred in the Holocene epoch. During this period, the Laurentide Ice Sheet advanced and retreated during the Pleistocene epoch. [1]
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 .