That large piles of rocks in the valley is said to be a glacial moraine. From LearnThat.org.
I agree that the moraine is the maximum of the ice from the LIA. From Wordnik.com. [Quelccaya Plant Deposits Again « Climate Audit] Reference
We were at the terminal moraine, which is a glacier's garbage pile. From Wordnik.com. [News Review - Top Stories] Reference
Behind the moraine is a lake-bed, now converted into a level meadow, which rests on a deep layer of mould. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
That Joe Simpson hello Joe if you're reading was able to drag himself through the moraine is a tale of human endurance. From Wordnik.com. [Touching Duh Void] Reference
The name of the park refers to the geologic formation moraine, which is the boulders, stones, and debris from a glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Defiance] Reference
Ido Govrin - moraine (Interval) 'But what kind of moraine?' my inner GCSE geography student asks. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
Then they led the horses to the top of the moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
This moraine at some points is not less than sixty feet high. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
"And he told you right where to find the moraine?" asked Sandy. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
At Lake Louise in Banff, the soils consist of moraine material. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada] Reference
This relict moraine restricts the surface circulation in the Bay. From Wordnik.com. [Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Alaska] Reference
Scotland was barred by a terminal moraine; and throughout the North of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
The wood-cut below represents the terminal moraine of the glacier of Viesch. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Such a ridge of débris along the side of a glacier is known as a marginal moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
By this time the boys had reached the cabin, after an exhausting journey over the moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
To these combined glaciers the formation of the terminal moraine of Thun must be ascribed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
The terminal moraine of the great glacier has been carefully traced through several States. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It is a part of my theory, too, that the drifting ice brought tons of it down to the moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
The volcanic action tipped the moraine to the south and it broke, opening the way to the ice below. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
"I don't think we went far enough to the west," Will said, as they made their way over the moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
"He told me," was the guarded reply, "that I might be able to find a deserted cabin on this moraine.". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
"Cameron and I are prospecting this moraine for gold, and we have no interest in any plans whatever!". From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
A few hundred feet from the outer edge of the ice-cliff, the forested moraine became a "dead" glacier. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
As we climb along the moraine at the margin of the glacier, many openings appear in the clear green ice. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
"How much do you know about this case?" asked Tommy of Frank, as the two stumbled over the uneven moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
There is always a line of moraine at each side of a glacier, and usually several ridges in the middle of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
Kaweah and Tule, a distance of 70 miles, on fresh moraine soil, ground from high mountain flanks by glaciers. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference
The glacier of the Aar represented in the wood-cut below affords a striking example of a large medial moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
In a log cabin standing in the center of a small forested moraine four boys of about seventeen were grouped together. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
A similar ridge, formed by the accumulation of rock fragments at the lower end of the glacier, is a terminal moraine. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
"What'd you say about going up to the end of the moraine?" asked Sandy, joining Tommy at the screened door of the cabin. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
The Joffrey pecan grows alone in a corn field south of Pelican Pouch, a glacial moraine south of Carlyle about six miles. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] Reference
This debris, along with moraine left behind after past ice ages, is responsible for many of the coast's distinctive landforms. From Wordnik.com. [Westland temperate forests] Reference
The boy expressed the situation very accurately, for the opening of the moraine revealed the mighty mass of ice which lay under it. From Wordnik.com. [The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier] Reference
In the western part of the ecoregion, patches of stagnation moraine similar to the Missouri Coteau (42a) have high wetland densities. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
Still, try to imagine the ice arching that cave like a bridge and lifting back, rimmed in moraine, far and away to the great white dome. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
From there its temporal moraine has been traced west, across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, diagonally across Ohio, crossing the river near. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
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