单词 | end moraine |
释义 | > as lemmasend moraine end moraine n. = terminal moraine n. at terminal adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) II. Index 1446/2 Terminal moraines (end-moraines). 1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xv. 374 Three types of glacial deposits—end moraine, lateral moraine, and ground moraine—may be distinguished, depending upon whether deposition took place at the end of, at the side of, or beneath an ice stream. 1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. xiii. 291 The edges of former ice sheets are often marked by terminal or end moraines, which are ridges of glacial material not usually exceeding 150–200 feet in height in lowlands. < as lemmas |
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