morain

For, when the formation of the ice ceased, we must bear in mind that the country to the north of the terminal morain was covered with a great glacier, in some places exceeding a mile in thickness.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

In front of it was accumulated the great terminal morain -- a long range of gravelly hills still marking its former presence.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Now in its upper reaches, in the sandy morain high up in the headwaters, it has been devastated by spring freshets.

Are We Using Canada's Wealth Aright? 1943

Wrapped up in the delight of it, I passed on through some and round others, pursuing my way up the beach, and ascended slowly the rocks, the huge morain at the side of the glacier, while impressively from the inlet came unvaryingly the thunder of the five-minute guns, hastening my steps, dogging them, as it were, with warning of the passing time.

Five Nights Victoria Cross 1910

Upon another and entirely different hypothesis, these flat promontories have been regarded as the remains, levelled by the waves, and gapped direct in the middle by the tide, of a vast transverse morain of the great valley, belonging to the same glacial age as the lateral morains some ten or fifteen miles higher up, that extend from the immediate neighborhood of Inverness to the mansion-house of Dochfour.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829