lateral moraine

geology

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formation

  • moraine
    In moraine

    …extend up the sides as lateral moraines. It may appear as a belt of hilly ground with knobs and kettles.

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  • esker: Nunavut
    In glacial landform: Moraines

    …of the glacier are termed lateral moraines. During a single glaciation, a glacier may form many such moraine arcs, but all the smaller moraines, which may have been produced during standstills or short advances while the glacier moved forward to its outermost ice position, are generally destroyed as the glacier…

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Pleistocene Epoch

  • Wisconsin glaciation
    In Pleistocene Epoch: Glaciation

    …along valley slopes are called lateral moraines, while those that loop across a valley at the lower end of a glacier are termed end moraines. The earliest observations and interpretations of more extensive Pleistocene glaciation were made on such deposits and landforms in the Alps during the early part of…

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