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glacial moraines A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice she ...
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North America


Moraines of the Great Lakes Region


Lake Ontario Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York. The Canada–United States border ...
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* Oak Ridge * AldenChapter XVIII, Glacial Lake Wayne; Frank B. Taylor; The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan, History of the Great Lakes; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. LIII; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Washington, D.C,; Government Printing Office; 1915 * Buffalo * Niagara Falls * Forest * GowandaChapter 13, Minor Moraines of the Late Wisconsin Stage; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey XLI; Frank Leverett; U.S. Government Printing Office; Washington; 1901 * Hamburg * Marilla * Alden * Pembroke * Batavia * Barre *Alboin


Lake Erie Lake Erie ( "eerie") is the fourth largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also h ...
Basin

* Waterloo Geology of the Great Lakes Hough, Jack L.; University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1958 * Salamonie * Trafalgar * Defiance * Fort Wayne * Wabash * Mississinewa * Packerton * Union City * Shelbyville * Illinoian


Lake Huron Basin

* Port Huron * Chesanings * West Haven * Henderson * Owosso * Flint * Otisville * St. Johns * Fowler * Lyons * Tawas * Alden


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Saginaw Saginaw () is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of Greater ...
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Kalamazoo Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropoli ...
* Sturgis * Lagrange * Middlebury * New Paris * Bremen * Maxinkuckee


=Interlobate ‘thumb’ of Michigan

= * Port Huron * Portland * Lyons * Fowler * Imlay and Goodland * Otter Lake (St. Johns) * Otisville * Deanville * Mayville * Owosso * Yale * St. Juniata


Lake Michigan Basin

* Manistee * Port Huron * Lake Border * Valparaiso ** Tinley ** Park Ridge *
Kalamazoo Kalamazoo ( ) is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropoli ...
* Marseilles * Bloomington *
Champaign Champaign ( ) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in Illinois outside the Chicago metropo ...
** Cerro Gordo * Shelbyville * Illinoian


Lake Superior Lake Superior in central North America is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater. and the third-largest by volume, holding 10% of the world's surface fresh wa ...
Basin

* BerounProfessional Paper 154—A, Moriaines and Shore Lines of Lake Superior Basin: Frank Leverett; United States Government Printing Office, Washington; February 9, 1929; (Pages 1-72) * Mille Lacs * Wright * Cromwell * Draco * Cloquet * Thompson * Kerrick * Nickerson * Fond du Lac * Highland * Grand Marais * Marenisco


Moraines of the Quebec and Ontario, Canada

* Oak Ridges
Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
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Trafalgar Trafalgar most often refers to: * Battle of Trafalgar (1805), fought near Cape Trafalgar, Spain * Trafalgar Square, a public space and tourist attraction in London, England It may also refer to: Music * ''Trafalgar'' (album), by the Bee Gees Pl ...
Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
* Waterloo
Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central C ...
* Dixville –
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
* Cherry River–East-Angus –
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
* Ulverton-Tingwick –
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...


Moraines of the Maritimes of Canada and NE United States

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Cape Cod Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
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North Shore (Long Island) The North Shore of Long Island is the area along the northern coast of New York's Long Island bordering Long Island Sound. Known for its extreme wealth and lavish estates, the North Shore exploded into affluence at the turn of the 20th century ...
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Harbor Hill moraine The Harbor Hill Moraine, in the geography of Long Island, forms the northern of two ridges along the "backbone" of Long Island. Description The Harbor Hill Moraine, skirting the North Shore, represents the terminal moraine of the most recent ...
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Hammonasset Beach State Park Hammonasset Beach State Park is a public recreation area occupying two miles of beach front on Long Island Sound in the town of Madison, Connecticut. It is the state's largest shoreline park and one of the most popular attractions in the state ...


Moraines of Western Canada

* Beaver Hills -
Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...


Moraines of the Great Plains of the United States

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Leaf Hills The Leaf Hills Moraines, sometimes called the Leaf Mountains, are a range of hills in west-central Minnesota. The land does not exhibit many characteristics of mountains, but nevertheless rises typically to a height of above the surrounding farmla ...
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Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...


Moraines of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mountains

* Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field
Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...


Europe

* Lüneburg Heath
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
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Rogen moraine A Rogen moraine (also called ribbed moraine) is a subglacially (''i.e.'' under a glacier or ice sheet) formed type of moraine landform,Hättestrand, C. & Kleman, J., 1999. Ribbed moraine formation. ''Quaternary Science Reviews, 18'':43-61 that ...
Sweden,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
:* Lake Rogen – Sweden * Pulju moraine
Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
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Salpausselkä Salpausselkä (; "Bar Ridge") is an extensive ridge system left by the ice age in Southern Finland. It is a large terminal moraine formation that formed in front of the Baltic ice lake during the Younger Dryas period about 12,250–10,400 years ...
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Sevetti moraine The Sevetti moraine is a particular assemblage of morainic forms found between Partakko and Sevettijärvi Sevettijärvi ( sms, Čeʹvetjäuʹrr, smn, Čevetjävri and se, Čeavetjávri) is a village in the municipality of Inari, Finland ap ...
– Finland * Trollgarden – Norway *
Veiki moraine A Veiki moraine (Swedish: Veikimorän) is a type of moraine found in northern Sweden, Troms og Finnmark in Norway, and parts of Canada. This moraine is characterized by forming a hummocky landscape of irregular moraine plateaus with elevated rim ...
– Sweden, Norway * La Serra morainic amphitheater of Ivrea - Piedmont, Italy


Antarctica

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* Dovers *
Elephant Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae ...
* Løken *
Moraine Fjord Moraine Fjord is an inlet long with a reef (a terminal moraine) extending across its entrance, forming the west head of Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901–04, wh ...
- South Georgia *
Pinafore A pinafore (colloquially a pinny in British English) is a sleeveless garment worn as an apron. Pinafores may be worn as a decorative garment and as a protective apron. A related term is ''pinafore dress'' (known as a ''jumper'' in Ameri ...
* Reckling * Two Step


Queen Maud Land

* Austbanen * Bremotet * Furdesanden *
Henry Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) * Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
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Mel Mel, Mels or MEL may refer to: Biology * Mouse erythroleukemia cell line (MEL) * National Herbarium of Victoria, a herbarium with the Index Herbariorum code MEL People * Mel (given name), the abbreviated version of several given names (including ...
* Sanbakken * Sandeidet * Schussel * Tvireta * Vestbanen


Ross Dependency

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Bowsprit The bowsprit of a sailing vessel is a spar extending forward from the vessel's prow. The bowsprit is typically held down by a bobstay A bobstay is a part of the rigging of a sailing boat or ship. Its purpose is to counteract the upward tensio ...
* Chain *
Flotsam In maritime law, flotsam'','' jetsam'','' lagan'','' and derelict are specific kinds of shipwreck. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. A shipwreck is defined as the rema ...
* Hells Gate *
Jetsam In maritime law, flotsam'','' jetsam'','' lagan'','' and derelict are specific kinds of shipwreck. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. A shipwreck is defined as the rema ...
* Knobhead * Shipwreck * The Strand * Swithinbank


South America

* Rio Blanco The chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial events in central Argentine Patagonia; Andrew S. Hein, Nicholas R.J. Hulton, Tibor J. Dunai, David E. Sugden, Michael R. Kaplan, Sheng Xu; Quaternary Science Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev; (2010) 1–16 -
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
* Hatcher - Argentina * Caracoles - Argentina * Gorra de Poivre - Argentina * HorconesThe quaternary glaciation of Chile: a review; Chalmers M. Clapperton; Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 67: 369 - 383, 1994 – Argentina * Penitentes * Punt de Vacas * Lago Sarmiento ISouth Patagonian Icefield - Argentina * Lago Sarmiento II – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina * Lago Sarmiento III – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina * Cordillera Paine IV – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina * Cordillera Paine V – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina * Cordillera Paine VI – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina * Rio LagunaQuaternary Glaciations in the Andes of North-Central Chile; Cesar N. Caviedes and Roland P Askoff; Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 14, No. 70, 1975
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
* Rio Seco at Rio Laguna - Chile * Ojos de Agua - Chile * Portillo - Chile * Guardia Vieja - Chile * Salto del Soldado - Chile


References

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