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terminal moraine-description

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steep-sided, perpendicular to the side of the valley (90 degrees). most are cresent shaped…often vegetated

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formation of terminal moraine

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bulldozing pushes the material to the glaciers snout until at the end of the glacier. it has unsorted and angular layers and the shape mirrors the shape of the glacier snout

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varved clays

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a distinctive banded layer of silt and sand deposited in lakes near the margins of ice-sheets

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