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terminal moraine

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terminal moraine
See under moraine.


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Magnificently showcasing the effects of continental glaciation (in some places the flow of glacial ice was as much as two miles deep) created a variety of geologic features including kames, kettles, drumlins, ice-walled-lake plans, eskers, tunnel channels, basalt bluffs, dells, and rock-strewn terminal moraines.
Long Island, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and much of the Cape are remnants of the terminal moraine, where the vast ice sheet finally stalled and dropped its immense load of sand.
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