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	Moraine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moraine is the general term for debris of all sorts originally transported by (A slowly moving mass of ice) glaciers or ice sheets that have since melted away.
		Terminal moraine: When balance is maintained between the melting of a glacier and its forward advance, the debris carried on (superglacial), within (englacial), and dragged along the bottom (subglacial) is dumped at that point and builds up a heterogeneous mass of the transported material called the terminal moraine.
		The ground moraine from the melting of the great (From two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution) Pleistocene ice sheets is usually spoken of as (Unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together) till.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/moraine.htm (406 words)

	Moraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moraine is the general term for debris of all sorts originally transported by glaciers or ice sheets that have since melted away.
		Terminal moraine: When balance is maintained between the melting of a glacier and its forward advance, the debris carried on (superglacial), within (englacial), and dragged along the bottom (subglacial) is deposited at that point and builds up a heterogeneous mass of the transported material called the terminal moraine.
		Interlobate moraine: If large glaciers and continental ice sheets advance irregularly so that their margins are lobate, when the margins retreat by melting the resulting terminal moraines of boulders, clay, and sand simulate the original interlobate shape of the glacier or glaciers, and therefore such moraines are called interlobate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moraine (362 words)

	moraine. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The debris left at the edge of the glacier’s extreme forward movement is a terminal moraine.
		Similar moraines deposited during a temporary halt in the retreat of glacial ice are called recessional moraines.
		The margins of the great ice sheets of the Pleistocene epoch are marked by terminal moraines stretching across North America and Europe.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/moraine.html (236 words)

	Landforms of Continental Glaciation
		Behind the terminal moraine is found a recessional moraine deposited when the ice sheet receded and stopped for a period of time.
		Ground moraine is till that was lodged beneath the glacier and genrally found behind the terminal moraine.
		An outwash plain forms ahead of the terminal moraine as melt water from the snout of a glacier deposits stratified drift.
	www.uwsp.edu /geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/glacial_systems/landforms_of_continental_glaciation.html (523 words)

	Pennsylvania Geological Survey: Open-File Reports–Picture Rocks Report Text
		The terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch (Wisconsinan) was placed at the south end of the Finger Lakes in New York State (Valley Heads moraine).
		Leverett (1934) revised the ages of glaciation in Pennsylvania, noting that Lewis' (1884) terminal moraine marked the edge of the Wisconsinan aged advance (last advance) of the glacier and that there was a discontinuous belt of Illinoian age and older deposits south of Lewis' border.
		Crowl and Sevon (1980), on the basis of radiocarbon dating and degree of weathering, determined that Lewis' terminal moraine and the “Olean drift” throughout northeastern Pennsylvania was of late Wisconsinan age.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /topogeo/openfile/prmaptext.aspx (3729 words)

	Geology of Ice Age National Scientific Reserve of Wisconsin (Chapter 6)
		The moraine was described by Chamberlin (1883a, 1883b:261-298) as the terminal moraine of the Second Glacial Epoch and cited as the most important discontinuity in the Pleistocene epoch in Wisconsin.
		Outside the moraine near the town line the limestone crest of the ridge is covered only by thin clay soil and scattered boulders which probably came from the moraine or the ice front itself.
		Alden (1918:209-217) clearly recognized that not all of the drift in the Johnstown Moraine was deposited during the one substage, that the thickness of the drift varied markedly from segment to segment of the moraine, and that the outermost front of the Johnstown Moraine was not everywhere synchronous nor representative of equal periods of time.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/science/2/chap6.htm (4683 words)

	Moraines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Terminal moraines are one of the most prominent types in the Arctic.
		One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm.
		The moraine is left as the marking point of the terminal extent of the ice.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpe/environments/land/glaciers/features/moraines.htm (384 words)

	Fresh Kills:Landfill to Landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The terminal moraine of the most recent glacier--the Wisconsin glacier--sits in Staten Island, creating three zones of differing geology: north of the terminal moraine, the terminal moraine itself and south of the terminal moraine.
		The terminal moraine of the glacier created a large inland lake, Glacial Lake Hackensack, which persisted for several thousand years on the western shore of Staten Island and the eastern shore of New Jersey.
		In the Lowlands region of the Greenbelt, a steep ravine of glacial moraine marks the boundary of the southernmost extent of the terminal moraine.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dcp/html/fkl/ada/about/1_1_6.html (501 words)

	Pennsylvania Geological Survey: Open-File Reports – Sonestown Report Text
		Lewis noted that south of the terminal moraine in Jordan Township (southeast Sonestown quadrangle) in the Little Muncy Creek valley there “are deposits resembling till except in the scarcity of scratched boulders”.
		In Penn township, (southwest part of the quadrangle) Lewis remarked that the terminal “moraine is indistinct and the region immediately north of it is remarkably free from drift”.
		He thought that the terminal moraine in northwestern Pennsylvania was deposited during the last glacial advance (his second glacial epoch) but he gave three alternative interpretations for the age of the moraine in northeastern Pennsylvania.
	www.dcnr.state.pa.us /topogeo/openfile/sonesmaptext.aspx (4177 words)

	Terminal Moraine
		This was where the great " Terminal Moraine" of the glacial epoch crossed the Delaware, recalling the "Ice Age," to which reference has already been made.
		This "Terminal Moraine" has been traced and care-fully studied for four hundred miles across Pennsylvania, showing throughout a remarkable accumulation of drift materials and boulders, heaped into irregular hills and hollows over a strip of land nearly a mile wide.
		It is inferred in the estimates of the duration of the glacier, from astronomical data, that the cold period began two hundred and eighty thousand years ago, the greatest cold being many thousand years later.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles24/america-62.shtml (819 words)

	GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE NEW YORK BIGHT
		The Harbor Hill Moraine represents the terminal moraine of the most recent advance of Wisconsin Stage glacier which reached its most southward advance about 18,000 years ago (it was probably completely melted in the NYC area in the range of 13,000 to 12,000 years ago).
		South of the terminal moraines of the great ice sheet meltwater carried gravel, sand, and rock flour from the melting ice and deposited it on an extensive outwash plain that extended to the coastal areas to the edge of the continental shelf.
		The evidence for a terminal moraine across the Verrazano Narrows region of the New York Harbor suggests that the river drainage was completely blocked (or even non-existent for a time under the ice) during the climax of the Wisconsin glacier.
	www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu /bight/coast.html (3143 words)

	Studies in the Sierra by John Muir
		During the long glacial winter, soil-material was poured from the range as from a fountain, borne outward by the mighty currents of the ice-sheet to be deposited in its terminal moraines.
		For, at the period of the deposition of the main soil-belt as a terminal moraine of the ice-sheet, long finger-like glaciers extended down every one of these cañons, thus effectually preventing the continuance of the main terminal moraine across the cañon channels.
		After the coarse, unbolted moraine soils derived from granite, slate, and lava have been well watered and snow-pressed, they are admirably adapted for the ordinary food and anchorage of coniferous trees, but further manipulation is required to fit them for special grove and garden purposes.
	www.sierraclub.org /John_Muir_exhibit/writings/studies_in_the_sierra/chapter_6.html (4782 words)

	Terminal Moraine, original comic art by Adam C. Prato
		Terminal Moraine is the (slightly) more refined version of those scribblings.
		Terminal Moraine is closest to Bloom County, but with a touch of Krazy Kat's surreality.
		Terminal Moraine, original comic art and Adam's artificial habitat (Aah) are part of TerminalMoraine.com.
	tm.terminalmoraine.com (688 words)

	6-22-98 RMNP- Atkins1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a view of Moraine Park, one of the most beautiful valleys in Rocky Mountain National Park, with the parallel ridges of snow-covered Stone's Peak in the upper right.
		Eventually the terminal moraine was eroded away, the lake drained -- so the meadow which we see today is really formed by sediment that collected at the bottom of this lake.
		Moraine Park was probably visited by unknown fur trappers in the early 19th century, but the first documented view of the valley was by Rufus Sage in November of 1843.
	www.digitalexplorers.com /expeditions/062298/atkins1.html (353 words)

	Moraine - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If one or more tributary glaciers coalesce with the main glacier the lateral moraines unite to form trains of debris on the surface of the glacier at or near its center, called medial moraines.
		When balance is maintained between the melting of a glacier and its forward advance, the debris carried on (superglacial), within (englacial), and dragged along the bottom (subglacial) is dumped at that point and builds up a heterogeneous mass of the transported material called the terminal moraine.
		If large glaciers and continental ice sheets advance irregularly so that their margins are lobate, when the margins retreat by melting the the resulting terminal moraines of boulders, clay, and sand simulate the original interlobate shape of the glacier or glaciers, and therefore such moraines are called interlobate.
	openproxy.ath.cx /gl/Glacial_moraine.html (299 words)

	Tom Vaughn
		Moraine - A landform, usually composed largely of till, which is deposited at the margin of a glacier.
		Terminal moraine - A deposit formed at the maximal extent of a valley or continental glacier.
		Locate and label the Sandwich Moraine which is the land within the 20 to 60 contours situated in an east west axis running from the Cape Cod Canal to about the town of Dennis.
	www.msp.umb.edu /TomVLesson.html (1768 words)

	Glacial Geomorphology of Long Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Harbor Hill Moraine is a terminal moraine clearly defined by a terminal ridge and subjacent elevated outwash plain.
		North of the moraine the landscape is dissected by deep, anastomosing tunnel valleys carved by subglacial melt water (Hanson, 2001).
		The interpretation of the Harbor Hill Moraine as a western extension of the Ronkonkoma terminal moraine (Fig.
	pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu /lig/Conferences/abstracts-03/bennington (2890 words)

	USGS: Geological Survey Professional Paper 387-A (Reconnaissance Study of Moraines of Emmons and Tahoma Glaciers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A prominent terminal moraine that extends across the neck of land approximately half a mile upstream from the confluence of Inter Fork and White River marks the maximunm advance of Emmons Glacier in at least a thousand years.
		The remainder of the moraine represented by the outer arc was obliterated by a younger advance of the glacier that extended farther downvalley.
		The young forest on the inner moraine is sufficiently close that the smaller trees could have grown on it and have fallen across the older moraine.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/387a/sec4.htm (1747 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Life on the terminal moraine is a study in the theory of place, presented conceptually in a planning and design studio and translated to a project.
		The terminal moraine is at the interface of two landforms separated by a river.
		Life on the terminal moraine is dwelling in a dynamic place where identity and drama are created by past and future socio-cultural relationships to physical and phenomenal landscapes at many scales.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~jlogsdon/projects/life_moraine.html (469 words)

	Terminal moraine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.
		On supposed glaciation in Pennsylvania south of the terminal moraine
		Preliminary paper on the terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch,
	dictionaries.cc /Terminal_moraine (182 words)

	Hubbard Glacier Photos
		The terminal moraine at the tip of Hubbard Glacier almost touches Gilbert Point in the center of the photo.
		The terminal moraine almost completely blocks water passage from Russell Fiord behind the moraine to Disenchantment Bay in the foreground.
		Hubbard's terminal moraine continues to squeeze the gap between Disenchantment Bay in the foreground and Russell Lake, where ice gathers above the rapids.
	www.fs.fed.us /r10/tongass/forest_facts/photogallery/hubbard_photos.html (1284 words)

	Ridge Historical Society
		The definition of a moraine, as given by the Encyclopedia Americana, is a "deposit of rock debris, composed of sand, gravel, or clay, made by a glacier." It later states that these materials are un-stratified, or not in layers.
		The ablation moraine is a collection of soil and rocks which was frozen in the ice but was dropped to the ground as the ice melted.
		A terminal moraine forms when a glacier is melting as rapidly as it is advancing; the rocks and soil freed from the melting ice settle as the water flows away.
	www.ridgehistoricalsociety.org /features02.html (2665 words)

	Aretes in Mountain areas are glaciers erosion features
		The existence of a push moraine is usually evidence of the climate becoming poorer after a relatively warm period.
		The process of formation is the same as for a terminal moraine, but they occur where the retreating ice paused rather than at the furthest extent of the ice.
		Supraglacial moraine is material on the surface of the glacier, including lateral and medial moraine, loose rock debris and dust settling out from the atmosphere.
	www.moorewallpaper.com /Mountains-35.htm (825 words)

	Garvies Point Museum and Preserve - Geology of Long Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shoreline erosion was occurring along the Harbor Hill terminal moraine and the stream drainage had adjusted to the post-glacial contours of the land.
		These boulders are most abundant on the terminal moraines, although many occur in the thin ground moraine layer deposited on the surface north of the terminal moraines as the ice melted.
		The Ronkonkoma moraine, although traceable across most of Nassau County, does not form a divide because today's small streams flow through breaks in the moraine created by the large meltwater rivers of the glacial period.
	www.garviespointmuseum.com /geology.php (2147 words)

	terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Typically a terminal communicates with the computer via a serial line.
		The end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
		[PJC] freight terminal, a terminal used for loading or unloading of freight.
	dictionaries.cc /terminal (619 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the south of the moraine the valley sides are made of sandstone of the St. Peter Formation, and the flatter hilltops are capped with limestone of the Platteville Formation, all overlain by a few feet of soil.
		The moraine is breached by a gorge half way between the tower and the parking lot; it was eroded by water from a glacial lake that suddenly drained north of the park.
		Due to the high number of pet exercise users; it is recommended that interpretive signage regarding the significance of the terminal moraine and the history of the IAT be placed on the centrally relocated kiosk at the staging area.
	www.dogpark.f2s.com /masterplan.htm (6459 words)

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