List of glacial moraines
This a partial list of glacial moraines. They are arranged by continents and divided by related hydrologic basins. This list is incomplete. Please improve the listing.
North America
Moraines of the Great Lakes Region
- Oak Ridge
- Alden[1]
- Buffalo
- Niagara Falls[1]
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Moraines south of the Great Lakes
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- Port Huron[4]
- Chesanings[4]
- West Haven
- Henderson[4]
- Owosso[4]
- Flint[4]
- Otisville[4]
- St. Johns[4]
- Fowler[4]
- Lyons
- Tawas
- Alden
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- Charlotte
- Tekonsha
- Kalamazoo [4]
- Sturgis[4]
- Lagrange[4]
- Middlebury[4]
- New Paris[4]
- Bremen[4]
- Maxinkuckee[4]
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Interlobate ‘thumb’ of Michigan
- Port Huron[4]
- Portland
- Lyons
- Fowler
- Imlay and Goodland
- Otter Lake (St. Johns)
- Otisville
- Deanville
- Mayville
- Owosso
- Yale
- St. Juniata
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- Marseilles
- Bloomington
- Champaign
- Shelbyville
- Illinoian
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- Nickerson[5]
- Fond du Lac[5]
- Highland [5]
- Grand Marais
- Marenisco
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Moraines of the Quebec and Ontario, Canada
Oak Ridge Moraine
Moraines of the Maritimes of Canada and NE United States
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Moraines of Western Canada
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Moraines of the Great Plains of the United States
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Moraines of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mountains
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Antarctica
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Queen Maud Land
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Ross Dependency
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South America
- Rio Blanco [6] - Argentina
- Hatcher [6] - Argentina
- Caracoles[6] - Argentina
- Gorra de Poivre[6] - Argentina
- Horcones[7] – Argentina
- Penitentes[6]
- Punt de Vacas[6]
- Lago Sarmiento I[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
- Lago Sarmiento II[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
- Lago Sarmiento III[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
- Cordillera Paine IV[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
- Cordillera Paine V[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
- Cordillera Paine VI[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
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References
- 1 2 3 Chapter XVIII, Glacial Lake Wayne; Frank B. Taylor; The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan, History of the Great Lakes; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. LIII; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Washington, D.C,; Government Printing Office; 1915
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chapter 13, Minor Moraines of the Late Wisconsin Stage; Monographs of the United State Geological Survey XLI; Frank Leverett; U.S. Government Printing Office; Washington; 1901
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Geology of the Great Lakes Hough, Jack L.; University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1958
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes, Monograph LIII; Frank Leverett & Frank B. Taylor, U.S. Geological Survey; Government Printing Office, Washington; 1915
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Professional Paper 154—A, Moriaines and Shore Lines of Lake Superior Basin: Frank Leverett; United States Government Printing Office, Washington; February 9, 1929; (Pages 1-72)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial events in central Argentine Patagonia; Andrew S. Hein,
Nicholas R.J. Hulton, Tibor J. Dunai, David E. Sugden, Michael R. Kaplan, Sheng Xu; Quaternary Science Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev; (2010) 1–16
- ↑ The quaternary glaciation of Chile: a review; Chalmers M. Clapperton; Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 67: 369 - 383, 1994
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Quaternary Glaciations in the Andes of North-Central Chile; Cesar N. Caviedes and Roland P Askoff; Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 14, No. 70, 1975
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| Pleistocene |
- Last glacial period
- 1st: Würm, Wisconsin, Weichselian, Devensian/Midlandian, Pinedale/Fraser, Greenland, Merida, Llanquihue
- 2nd: Riss, Illinoian, Saale, Wolstonian, Santa María
- 3rd-6th: Mindel, Pre-Illinoian, Elster, Anglian, Rio Llico
- 7th-8th: Günz, Pre-Illinoian, Elbe or Menapian, Beestonian, Caracol
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| Carboniferous |
- Karoo (360 Mya to 260 Mya)
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