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Term: Medial moraine
Definition: 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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Term: Medial moraine
Definition: 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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Term: Medial moraine
Definition: Deposit of material found down the center of a glacier. Created when two glacier and their lateral moraines merge.
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