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| TERMINAL MORAINES
The eroded material deposited at the terminus of a glacier is an end
or terminal moraine. There are many types of terminal moraines classified
by the depostional processes that form them.
Ice cored moraines are formed when disintegrating
ice is insulated by overlying till. Push moraines are formed
when the ice "bulldozes" till as it advances. Recessional
moraines are simply terminal moraines from more than one advance.
photo courtesy W.W. Locke
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