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moraine1783

A mound, ridge, or other feature consisting of debris that has been carried and deposited by a glacier or ice sheet, usually at its sides or…

osar1842

A long narrow ridge or mound of sand or gravel deposited by a stream flowing beneath a glacier; = esker, n. Usually in plural. Cf. kame, n.

esker1852

‘The name given in Ireland to the elongated and often flat-topped mounds of post-glacial gravel which occur abundantly in the greater river-valleys…

kame1862

= comb, n. 6d; used in various senses, esp. that of a steep and sharp hill ridge; hence in Geology one of the elongated mounds of post-glacial…

sow-back1874

Geology. A ridge of glacial origin suggestive of the back of a sow.

push moraine1890

an arc-shaped moraine composed of unconsolidated rock debris and formed by an advancing glacier or ice sheet which pushes material before it into…

whaleback1893

Geology. A large mound of the shape of the back of a whale. More widely, any land form or land mass likened to the back of a whale; spec. (a) = roch

recessional moraine1897

a moraine deposited during a temporary halt or minor readvance of a receding glacier or ice sheet, similar in appearance to a terminal moraine.

Ra1902

Any of a series of terminal or recessional moraines in southern Norway having the form of long ridges of gravel and clay with a covering of large…

Salpausselkä1923

Each of two long, wide end moraines in southern Finland that are regarded as marking the last readvance of the ice sheet at the end of the…

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