Sentences with phrase «on glacial moraine»
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.