Sentences with phrase «glacial moraines»

About 15 Ka ago the ice front was receding north there, so I'm guessing your trees grow on glacial moraine or outwash in thin soil.

They are not sheer cliffs, but steep piles of glacial moraine, rock and dirt.

(6) The most prominent oscillation — already noticed in glacial moraines in Scandinavia around the turn of the century — had begun with a rise in temperature, named the Allerød warm period.

These also confirm the linkage between ice ages and continental crust phenomena such as glacial moraines, drumlins, and glacial erratics.

Aside from a brief two - lane stretch along Upper Loch Torridon, the A896 is one - car wide and, as with almost all roads south of Ullapool, tracks the valley floor, following rivers and skirting ancient glacial moraine.

Above the land and water, people see a land pock marked with ponds and lakes, cut with deep valleys, and rippled with glacial moraines — all of which is set next to the rugged spine of active volcanoes.

Lake Garda in central northern Italy has long been regarded as a go - to destination by those who appreciate fresh air, tranquillity and outstanding natural beauty and these are found in abundance in the region of the villages of San Felice de Benaco and Portese, situated on hilly glacial moraine on the western shore of the lake.

Glacial moraines impound the stream into several small lakes.

We will have amazing views of Apu Salkantay and glacial moraines during this portion.

Yellowstone's northern range of sagebrush - grasslands and bison, elk, wolf, and bear inhabitants is founded on glacial moraines, sub-glacial till, and outwash deposited during the last glaciation.

Take in the lake from 400 feet high on a glacial moraine at Pyramid Point or drive through the seven - mile Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive to see the colors change with the seasons surrounding the lake.

[4] Between the hills and glacial moraine, Putnam County's valleys contain numerous wetlands (including part of the Great Swamp), creeks, ponds, lakes (including the 583 acre Lake Mahopac), and reservoirs.

The classic viewpoint, created by the remnants of an ice age glacier moving down the valley, is found on top of the glacial moraine at the end of the lake.

This rich texture is translated into the viscous, tactile ripples of white paint, which spread like a glacial moraine across the canvas in Struktur (2).

Throughout his career, Smyth has collected and catalogued found stones broken from mountains, carried by glaciers, dropped at glacial moraines and smoothed by tides and sand.

Broken from mountains, these stones have been carried, tumbled, and ground for thousands of miles, and finally dropped at a glacial moraine where they are smoothed by sand, gravel, and water.

Glaciation left an extensive geologic record on the continents in the form of predominantly unconsolidated tills and glacial moraines, which in North America extend in a line as far south as Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Long Island, New York, and on the ocean floor in the form of ice - rafted detritus dropped from calving icebergs.