moraines

They will be dropped at the end of the glacier, and mixed with silt and sand and other stones which have come down inside the glacier itself, and piled up in the field in great mounds, which are called moraines, such as you may see and walk on in Scotland many a time, though you might never guess what they are.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

Flowing glaciers carry rocks and dirt which build up mounds and ridges, called moraines, at the downhill end of the glacier.

NZ On Screen 2010

Here form features called moraines, consisting of cobbles, gravel, silt, etc. ... the dirty crap that the glacier has chewed up as it grew that is now being spewed out the edge like the icky sandy stuff you see all over parking lots in the spring when the winter snow melts (this will mean nothing to those of you living in warm environments, of course).

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

There is a wide range of glacial phenomena and structures: valley, mountain and cirque glaciers, ribs and crevasses and glacial depositional features such as moraines and glacier forelands.

Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland 2008

But when the action of glaciers was studied and the recent occurrence of a glacial epoch demonstrated as a fact, many phenomena -- such as moraines and other gravel deposits, boulder clay, erratic boulders, grooved and rounded rocks, and Alpine lake basins -- were seen to be due to this altogether distinct cause.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The sides of the basin are bare and rocky, fringed here and there with the rough knolls which mark the deposits of ancient glaciers, the "moraines" of the Lebanon.

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

He also described the "moraines" of the ancient glaciers, and the rounded masses of polished rock, called in Switzerland "roches moutonnees."

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

Other astronomers have seen in these inexplicable rays a kind of moraines, rows of erratic blocks, which had been thrown up at the period of Tycho’s formation.

Round the Moon 2003

A series of terminal moraines created by advancing glaciers during the last 10000 years.

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1050 2009

In other pictures, forests have flourished on formerly barren moraines, and glaciers that grew for hundreds of thousands of years have disappeared like smoke.

He Cut a Fresh Path in Mountain Photography Michael J. Ybarra 2011