medial moraine
English
Noun
medial moraine (plural medial moraines)
- (geology) A moraine formed where lateral moraines of two glaciers meet.
- 1972, Calvin J. Heusser, “Polsters of the moss Drepanocladus berggrenii on Gilkey Glacier, Alaska”, in Torreya, volume 99, number 1, pages 34-36:
- Piles of rock debris in the background represent nearby medial moraine.