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Keywords: Moraine, Glacier, Merge, Till, Ridge
A strip of sediment in the interior of a glacier, parallel to the flow direction of the glacier, formed by the lateral moraines of two merging glaciers.
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A streak of till in the center of a glacier. These are found downslope from the junction of two glaciers and are a merging of their lateral moraine deposits.
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A ridge of till formed in the middle of a valley glacier by the junction of two lateral moraines where two valley glaciers converge.
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a deposit of glacial drift running down the length of a glacier
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a ridge of material marking the center of a former glacier, especially noticeable in glaciers which are confluent
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a strip of morainal debris in the middle of glacier ice which marks where two glaciers come together
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A sediment ridge, located on a glacier's exposed ice surface, away from its valley walls, extending down glacier to the terminus. It forms by the joining of two lateral moraines when two glaciers merge.
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A moraine formed when two adjacent glaciers flow into each other and their lateral moraines are caught in the middle of the joined glacier.
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Deposit of material found down the center of a glacier. Created when two glacier and their lateral moraines merge.
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a ridge-shaped moraine in the middle of a glacier originating from a rock outcrop, nunatak, or the converging lateral moraines of two or more ice streams.
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the moraine that occurs when the lateral moraines of two glaciers meet and merge. [AHDOS
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