moraines in a sentence

1. Furthermore, many glacial moraines shape the landscape of Estonia.

2. Already in 1606 H.R.Räßmann described some moraines in the Swiss area.

3. Terminal or end moraines are formed at the foot or terminal end of a glacier.

4. moraines are classified according to their origin, location and by their shape.

5. The high snow-covered peaks and moraines surrounding it alone represent an area of 1,341 km2.

6. A glacier that is largely free of such moraines is generally described in French as a glacier blanc.[1]

7. 'Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now moraines, accumulations of earth and stones.

8. Multiple YD moraines of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet have long been documented and a vast literature exists.

9. The curved roofs of the train stations are reminiscent in shape and color of flowing glacier tongues and moraines.

10. The frontal moraines are thus often split and flood after flood can disappear (moraine of the glacier of Lex-Blanche (10)).

11. however, some of the ancient moraines cannot be categorized because of they are poorly preserved and are also difficult to distinguish.

12. In deep time, O18 values are a real success story: they clearly show changes from the LGM to the Holocene that cohere with glacial moraines.

13. It deals with statistical investigations on the regional and stratigraphic characterization of moraines and in the case of the Rhine also on river history.

14. Radiation of the ice streams took place from the heights of Merrick, Kells, etc.; local moraines are found near Carsphairn and in the Deagh and Minnoch valleys.

15. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have completely disappeared.

16. The quick succession of two major cooling events at the beginning of the YD seems to be confirmed by moraine analysis as described by Anthony Watts in the following excerpt (moraines are geological formations that mark the limit of the ice extent):