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moraine Meaning in Tamil ( moraine வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Noun:

சறுக்கும் பனிக்காடிப் பாளத்தினால் ஏற்பட்ட கல் (அ) மண் குவியல்,



moraine's Usage Examples:

The effect of the Glacial epoch in Europe is shown in northern Africa by the moraines of the higher Atlas, and the wider extension of the glaciers on Kilimanjaro, Kenya and Ruwenzori, and by the extensive accumulations of gravel over the Sahara.


Straight ahead is the high lateral moraine of the South Annapurna glacier and the Modi follows a deep cliff to the right.


Nor is there any sign of moraines, glacier-scorings or other traces of the ice-age.


The former of these, representing the bottommoraine of the ice-sheet, are covered with Glacial and post-Glacial clays (partly of lacustrine and partly of marine origin) only in the peripheral coast-region - or in separate areas in the interior depressions.


recessional moraines associated with Late Midlandian ice retreat.


Although individually variable, the complexes all characteristically comprise well-preserved, cross-valley, arcuate recessional moraines.


The typical bottom moraine, with erratics from Finland, extends all over the country.


hummocks known as moraines.


Numerous glacial marks, however, such as polished striated rocks, moraines, erratic blocks, 'c.


There is evidence also that glacial moraine formations from time to time may have largely affected the catchment area of these tributary streams.


Cirques, valley troughs, numberless beautiful cascades, sharpened alpine peaks and ridges, glacial lakes, and valley moraines offer everywhere abundant evidence of glacial action, which has modified profoundly practically all the ranges.


Nearer the Great Lakes the till sheets are trenched only by the narrow valleys of the large streams; marshy sloughs still occupy the faint depressions in the till plains, and the associated moraines have abundant small lakes in their undrained hollows: hence these drift sheets are of late Pleistocene origin.


Cosmogenic exposure ages from relict lateral moraines overridden by the Fennoscandian ice sheet in northern Sweden.





Synonyms:

ground, glacier, earth,



Antonyms:

figure, unfasten, disconnect,

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