terminal moraine

English

Noun

terminal moraine (plural terminal moraines)

1. A moraine left at the point of furthest advance of a glacier or ice sheet.

Synonyms

• end moraine

Translations

terminal moraine

• Danish: endemoræne c
• Finnish: reunamoreeni (fi), reunamuodostuma
• German: Endmoräne (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: endemorene m

  Nynorsk: endemorene m

References

• “terminal moraine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.