medial moraine
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noun
a ridge of glacial drift formed by the junction of two converging valley glaciers.
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Medial moraine
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Deposit formed on a medial moraine in left side of view.
The confluence of the two glaciers is marked by the medial moraine.
When two valley glaciers join, two lateral moraines merge to create a medial moraine in the middle of the combined glacier.
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