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terminal moraine

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Also known as: end moraine

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In moraine
A terminal, or end, moraine consists of a ridgelike accumulation of glacial debris pushed forward by the leading glacial snout and dumped at the outermost edge of any given ice advance. It curves convexly down the valley and may extend up the sides as lateral moraines.…
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formation

In glacial landform: Moraines
…given glaciation is called the terminal moraine of that glaciation. Successively smaller moraines formed during standstills or small readvances as the glacier retreats from the terminal moraine position are recessional moraines.
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kames

In kame
…areas, kames may form the terminal moraine.
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Pleistocene Epoch

In Pleistocene Epoch: Glaciation
…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 the 19th century.
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