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How does moraine form?

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A moraine forms by sediment ridges. 👍 or 👎

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How does a moraine form?

A moraine forms by sediment ridges. 👍 or 👎


How is a moraine different from an ordinary hill?

a moraine is taller than a ordinary hill


Materials bulldozed at the front of the glacier form a .?

moraine


Materials bulldozed at the front of the glacier form a?

moraine


What of the following glacial features results from deposition a moraine?

Glacial moraine could dam and prevent glacial meltwater from escaping. Glacial lakes usually form behind the moraine as the thawing glacier retreats.


When 2 cirques on opposite sides of a valley meet what do they form?

Moraine


Small mound formed by the deposit of rocks from a melting glacier?

moraine, or perhaps more specifically a Drumlin, which sometimes form an egg-shaped landscape. A snow avalanche from a hillside can carry with it entrained rocks, which when the snow melts form a small hillock at the foot of the hill, but conspicuously made of moraine rocks and debris.


What are ridges that form on the sides of glacial valleys as a glacier melts?

lateral moraine


What are the various types of moraines?

Lateral moraine, Medial moraine and Terminal moraine.


What glacial features results from deposition?

A glacial deposit is known as a moraine. A moraine may form a dam, keeping back the glacial melt-water, forming a series of lakes.


How can terminal and lateral moraines form glacial lakes?

A lateral moraine is formed at the side of a glacier. Falling ice can melt and form a lake. Similarly, a terminal moraine marks the farthest advance of a glacier where all the ice typically melts.


Where is moraine farm and who lived there?

it is in between Moraine and Kettering. Charles Kettering lived in moraine farm.