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Moraine meaning
An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
Using Moraine
- The main meaning on this page is: An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
- Useful related words include: earth, ground.
- In the example corpus, moraine often appears in combinations such as: medial moraine, moraine is, moraine that.
Context around Moraine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Moraine
- In this selection, "moraine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, medial, veiki, terminal, valley, main and deposited stand out and add context to how "moraine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a medial moraine is a and a sandy moraine that the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "moraine" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with moraine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Trees display their fall colors near Moraine State Park in Butler County. (12 words)
After a glacier retreats, the end moraine may be destroyed by postglacial erosion. (13 words)
On Earth the ridge would be called the terminal moraine of an alpine glacier. (14 words)
Meet at Hubbard County Road 4/Halverson Forest Road Trailhead (2.5 miles south of Lake George on Hubbard Co. 4) at 1:30 p.m. Hike will cross the Schoolcraft River Valley, pass through mixed forest and all the Itasca Moraine landforms. (43 words)
A website profile on Hay’s alma mater, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said he grew up in the small Wisconsin city of Antigo and later worked in the Kettle Moraine School District, among other places. (37 words)
Meadow closures are in place between the hours of 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. Areas that are closed include meadow areas in Horseshoe Park, Upper Beaver Meadows, Moraine Park, Harbison Meadow and Holzwarth Meadow. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Medial moraine A medial moraine is a ridge of moraine that runs down the center of a valley floor.
Veiki moraine main A Veiki moraine is a kind of hummocky moraine that forms irregular landscapes of ponds and plateaus surrounded by banks.
The high school students worked in Moraine Valley’s kitchen without help from their teachers, though Moraine Valley students were on hand to assist.
Tully is geologically noted for the terminal moraine deposited there by the glacier, filling the deep Tully Valley, which might have been another Finger Lake, had the moraine been left closer to Syracuse, impounding water.
Meadow closures are in place between the hours of 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. Areas that are closed include meadow areas in Horseshoe Park, Upper Beaver Meadows, Moraine Park, Harbison Meadow and Holzwarth Meadow.
Trees display their fall colors near Moraine State Park in Butler County.
A group of Calgarians living in RVs parked on Moraine Road are hopeful the city is coming up with a plan to find a permanent place for them to park their unique homes.
I love Gran Moraine’s whisper-light pink hue, purity and generous textured palate rich with notes of wild strawberries and peach creamsicle.
A website profile on Hay’s alma mater, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said he grew up in the small Wisconsin city of Antigo and later worked in the Kettle Moraine School District, among other places.
Meet at Hubbard County Road 4/Halverson Forest Road Trailhead (2.5 miles south of Lake George on Hubbard Co. 4) at 1:30 p.m. Hike will cross the Schoolcraft River Valley, pass through mixed forest and all the Itasca Moraine landforms.
After a glacier retreats, the end moraine may be destroyed by postglacial erosion.
Drammensfjorden is cut almost in two by the Svelvik "ridge", a sandy moraine that the during the ice cover was under sea level but after the post-glacial rebound reaches 60 meters above the fjord.
End moraine size and shape are determined by whether the glacier is advancing, receding or at equilibrium.
In addition, convert southwest of Milwaukee is the Kettle Moraine and lake country that provides an industrial landscape combined with inland lakes.
In Search of Ancient New Zealand, p. 139. unstrip Aoraki / Mount Cook as seen from the end of the Hooker Valley trail, with the Hooker Glacier's moraine lake in the foreground.
Medial moraines are formed when two different glaciers merge and the lateral moraines of each coalesce to form a moraine in the middle of the combined glacier.
Moraine or till is the most common type of soil, covered by a thin layer of humus of biological origin.
On Earth the ridge would be called the terminal moraine of an alpine glacier.
Some moraine types are known only from ancient glaciers, while medial moraines of valley glaciers are poorly preserved and difficult to distinguish after the retreat or melting of the glacier.
The bluffs of the North Shore The land to the south of this moraine to the South Shore is the outwash plain of the last glacier.
Common combinations with moraine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- medial moraine 3×
- moraine is 3×
- moraine that 3×
- terminal moraine 3×
- the moraine 3×
- of moraine 2×
- veiki moraine 2×
- moraine valley 2×
- moraine state 2×
- kettle moraine 2×