moraine / məˈreɪn /

⚽高中词汇碛砂碛口碛石碛头

moraine 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
  2. a deposit of such material left on the ground by a glacier.

moraine 近义词

moraine

等同于 ridge

更多moraine例句

  1. As long as the moraine survives, it will remain a bulwark, potentially stretching Taku’s retreat over centuries instead of decades.
  2. In effect, these moraines serve as anchors in times of change.
  3. I’m still working on a collection that I made in 2006 that took me less than five minutes to collect, in a moraine in Antarctica.
  4. Materials I found in the moraine later showed that it’s been collecting dust for at least 700,000 years.
  5. Steck crumpled to the moraine, and it looked as though he'd be bludgeoned to death.
  6. We now put on the rope again, and so crossed the easy glacier which led down to the moraine on which I had been two months before.
  7. Ultimately I struggled across the glacier, bearing various burdens, to meet them as they came down on a parallel moraine.
  8. I camped, at about 19,500 feet, on the moraine-covered glacier opposite the junction of the northerly branch from Pks.
  9. A terminal moraine, a mile and a half in depth, separates it from the sea.
  10. Toward evening I clambered down to the cottage by Moraine Lake.