Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An accumulation of boulders, stones, or other debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mixed stony drift gathered from the disintegration of underlying rocks and strewn over lower slopes as by landslides.
- noun The accumulations of rock and detrital material along the edges of a glacier.
- Same as
morainic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
accumulation ofrocks anddebris carried and deposited by aglacier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun accumulated earth and stones deposited by a glacier
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The moraine, therefore, consists wholly of nether-formed and nether-borne severely triturated materials (_moraine profunde_).
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Given the reality or, if you prefer, possibility of global warming, it may be that we'll all be using the word moraine as much as "credit," both related to a meltdown.
The Union - All Categories By Diane Dean-Epps Special to Sunday Express 2010
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That Joe Simpson hello Joe if you're reading was able to drag himself through the moraine is a tale of human endurance.
Touching Duh Void juliette 2009
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During the Wisconsinian glaciation, most of the northern hemisphere was covered with ice up to 2 miles thick as far south as Des Moines, Iowa where the state capitol was built on the terminal moraine, which is hundreds of feet thick.
The Volokh Conspiracy » SuperFreakonomic War of Words Over Warming 2009
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The name of the park refers to the geologic formation moraine, which is the boulders, stones, and debris from a glacier.
Lake Defiance M-mv 2005
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I agree that the moraine is the maximum of the ice from the LIA.
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The name of the park refers to the geologic formation moraine, which is the boulders, stones, and debris from a glacier.
Raptor days M-mv 2006
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The name of the park refers to the geologic formation moraine, which is the boulders, stones, and debris from a glacier.
Archive 2006-07-01 M-mv 2006
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The name of the park refers to the geologic formation moraine, which is the boulders, stones, and debris from a glacier.
Archive 2005-05-01 M-mv 2005
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The terminal moraine, which is the one that closed up the lake, separating and raising it above the level of Lake Tahoe, is a less noble mound, yet geologically it allures the mind and demands study as much as the others.
chained_bear commented on the word moraine
"... the fires burned through a wild area called Dogtown Common, an expanse of swamp and glacial moraine that was once home to the local crazy and forgotten."
—Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1997 (NY: HarperCollins, 1999), 18
August 17, 2009