medial moraine

noun

A moraine formed where lateral moraines of two glaciers meet.

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Meanings

nounmedial moraine (plural medial moraines)

plural medial moraines

  1. geographyA moraine formed where lateral moraines of two glaciers meet.

    Piles of rock debris in the background represent nearby medial moraine.

    1972, Calvin J. Heusser, “Polsters of the moss Drepanocladus berggrenii on Gilkey Glacier, Alaska”, in Torreya, volume 99, number 1, pages 34–36
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