noun
- a mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier
Usage: geology
Examples
- The hikers climbed over the rocky moraine left behind by the retreating glacier.
- Scientists studied the moraine to understand the glacier’s historical movement.
- The terminal moraine marked the farthest point the ice sheet had reached.
- Wildflowers grew among the boulders scattered across the lateral moraine.
- The valley was filled with moraine deposits from thousands of years ago.
- Geologists can date a moraine by examining the rocks it contains.