| Front | moraine \muh-RAYN\ |
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| Back | noun An accumulation of boulders, gravel, or other debris carried and deposited by a glacier. [From French moraine, from Savoy dialect morena (mound).] "Professor Shulmeister's team believes a large landslide dumped a huge volume of rock on top of the glacier, causing it to advance and, when the advance stopped, the moraine was created." |
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