Updated 3/1/99
Luke Lohmuller and Molly Ward
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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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