Updated 3/1/99
Luke Lohmuller and Molly Ward
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Recessional Moraines, Baffin Island 

Recessional moraines form when a glacier pauses during its retreat and deposits till before receding again.  Or, when a glacier retreats and then re-advances, though not to its previous maximum. 
 

photo courtesy W.W. Locke
 

 
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