moraine
Ice-deposited ridge
A moraine is an accumulation of rocks, sediment, and debris deposited by a glacier.
As glaciers advance and retreat, they push and carry material that gets left behind in distinctive formations—ridges along the sides (lateral moraines), at the terminus (terminal moraines), or beneath the ice (ground moraines).
The hikers crossed the rocky moraine at the glacier's edge.
Slow-moving ice mass
- iceWater's solid form
- cirqueGlacier-carved mountain basin
- valleyLow ground between heights
- alpineOf high elevations
piedmont · continental · ice sheet · glaciation · Pleistocene · Holocene · ice age · advance
Register drawer for money
- debrisScattered broken fragments
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- depositPlace for safekeeping
- rubbleBroken building fragments
boulders · gravel · clay · silt · drift · detritus · erratics · unsorted
glacier
Slow-moving ice mass
alpine · piedmont · continental · ice sheet · glaciation · Pleistocene · Holocene · ice age · advance · retreat
till
Register drawer for money
rubble · boulders · gravel · clay · silt · drift · detritus · erratics · unsorted · stratified
terminal
At the endpoint
recessional · end · push · hummocky · ablation · subglacial · Rogen · washboard · dump · lodgement
ridge
Narrow raised strip
tarn · kettle · drumlin · esker · glacial valley · U-shaped · amphitheater · erratic · fjord · terrain
- polar scienceglaciology, Antarctic research, ice shelf, Arctic, ice caps
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- AlpsAlps, Swiss Alps, Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Austrian Alps
- earth materialsrock, soil, mud, clay, mineral
- Moundsant mound, anthill, burial mound, cairn, dirt pile
- mountain featurespeaks, peak, ridges, summit, slopes
morainebedrock
Solid stone underground
solid rock · granite · limestone · metamorphic rock · hardrock