Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Connected with or formed by a moraine: as, morainic deposits; a morainic barrier.
- Forming or constituting a moraine: as, morainic matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a moranie.
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- adjective Pertaining to a
moraine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Evidence of past glaciation is present on all three peaks, with morainic debris found as low as 3,600 m.
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Lakes, poorly drained depressions, morainic hills, drumlins, eskers, outwash plains, and other glacial features are typical of the area, which was entirely covered by glaciers during parts of the Pleistocene.
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The south central part of the Pechoro-Ilychsky Reserve lies on the Pripechova lowlands, a plain of sand and morainic loam at the foot of the North Urals and is traversed by the Pechora River and its tributary the Ilych.
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The intermediate depression or central valley is a lower fault zone (100-200 m) covered by volcanic ash and glacial morainic fields lying between the two ranges.
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Lakes, poorly drained depressions, morainic hills, drumlins, eskers, outwash plains, and other glacial features are typical of the area, which was entirely covered by glaciers during parts of the Pleistocene.
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The spot was separated from the mountain – side by a low morainic bank, rising twenty or thirty feet above sea – level.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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The bands on this berg were particularly well defined; they were due to morainic action in the parent glacier.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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The spot was separated from the mountain-side by a low morainic bank, rising twenty or thirty feet above sea-level.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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The coast of the Baltic is rocky only in the island-studded region at the head of the Baltic basin proper -- a submerged lake-district -- and the littoral generally is a typical morainic land, the work of the last great
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Besides those from the intestines of animals and birds, cultures were successfully made from the following natural sources: lichen soil, moss soil, morainic mud, guano, ice and snow.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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