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ablation moraine, lateral moraine
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- Lateral moraines are created as debris accumulates as low ridges of till that ride along the edge of the moving glaciers.en.wikipedia.org
- They form perpendicular to the lateral moraines that they reside between and are composed of unconsolidated debris deposited by the glacier.en.wikipedia.org
- The lateral moraine ridges on either side of the glacier are on average 150 feet high.en.wikipedia.org
- The worrying thing about this is that lateral moraines never get higher than glacier surfaces that create them.en.wikipedia.org
- A lateral moraine that is no longer being actively added to with glacial material because the glacier has retreated for climatic reasons, is known as a flank moraine.en.wikipedia.org
- Lateral moraines are formed on the sides of the glacier.en.wikipedia.org
- In alpine glaciers, ground moraines are often found between the two lateral moraines.en.wikipedia.org
- The glacier descends from approximately 12000 ft to a terminus near 7200 ft below which an old lateral moraine once was the northern margin of the glacier.en.wikipedia.org
- Large lateral moraines can be seen below the glacier.en.wikipedia.org
- The lateral moraines comprise that eroded material which is carried along at the sides of a glacier.en.wikipedia.org
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