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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. Glacial landform - Wikipedia

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    Moraine: Built up mound of glacial till along a spot on the glacier. Feature can be terminal (at the end of a glacier, showing how far the glacier extended), lateral (along the sides of a glacier), or medial (formed by the merger of lateral moraines from contributory glaciers). Types: Pulju, Rogen, Sevetti, terminal, Veiki

  6. Fluvioglacial landform - Wikipedia

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    The name and specific characteristics of a moraine are dependent upon its location relative to the glacial body and the processes that deposited the relevant glacial till. [7] Four overarching types of moraines include lateral, medial, ground, and end. The size of the deposited sediments which form a moraine can range from clay to boulder sized.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Kendall County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Southern Kendall still remains largely agricultural. Kendall County has two primary ranges of low-lying hills formed by what is known as an end moraine. Ransom, the more predominant of the two moraines, runs through the west and north-central part of the county.

  9. 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 .