The Salpausselkä terminal moraines in Southern Finland

The Marseilles terminal moraine located southwest of Chicago

Alpine terminal moraine near St. Salpausselkä is an extensive Ridge system left by the Ice age in Southern Finland. The Province of Southern Finland is a province of Finland. It borders the provinces of Western Finland and Eastern Finland. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Moritz/ Maloja, Upper Engadin, Switzerland, view east towards the Muretto pass, the national border with Italy

A terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a moraine that forms at the end of the glacier called the snout. Etymology In Romansch which is the indigenous language of the region the "Engadin" literally translates as the garden of the Inn River (Romansch En Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Moraine refers to any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (soil and rock which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions such as those "Glacial" and "Glaciation" redirect here For the geological periods see Glacial period.

Terminal moraines mark the maximum advance of the glacier. An end moraine is at the present boundary of the glacier.

Terminal moraines are one of the most prominent types of moraines in the Arctic. The Arctic is the Region around the Earth 's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional It is now known that terminal moraines are created at the edge of the greatest extent of the glacier. At this point, the debris that has been accumulated by plucking and abrasion, that has been pushed by the front edge of the ice is driven no farther, but instead is dumped in a heap. Because the glacier acts very much like a conveyor belt, the longer it stays in one place, the greater the amount of material that will be deposited. A belt conveyor consists of two or more Pulleys with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them The moraine is left as the marking point of the terminal extent of the ice.

In North America, the Outer Lands is a name given to the terminal moraine archipelago of the northeast United States (Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and Long Island). The Outer Lands is a term denoting the prominent Terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States An archipelago (ɑrkəˈpɛləgoʊ is a chain or cluster of Islands The word archipelago literally means "chief Sea " from Italian The Atlantic Northeast is a region of North America comprising New England in the United States and the Maritimes in Canada The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Cape Cod (or simply the Cape to most New Englanders is a Peninsula nearly coextensive with Barnstable County Massachusetts and forming the easternmost Martha's Vineyard (adjoining the smaller Chappaquiddick Island) is an Island off the US east coast to the south of Cape Cod, both Block Island is part of the US state of Rhode Island and is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately south of the coast of Rhode Island Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches Other prominent examples of terminal moraines are the Tinley Moraine and the Valparaiso Moraine, perhaps the best examples of terminal moraines in North America. The Tinley Moraine is a Moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America. The Valparaiso Moraine is a Terminal moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America These moraines are most clearly seen southwest of Chicago.

In Europe, virtually all the reliëf in the central Netherlands is made up of an extended terminal moraine. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands In Switzerland, alpine terminal moraines can be found, one striking example being the moraine at the end of the valley of the glacier Forno in the south-eastern canton of Graubünden near St. Moritz/ Maloja and the Italian border. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Graubünden or Grisons ( German:, gʁaʊˈbyndən Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun) is the largest and easternmost St Moritz ( German: Sankt Moritz, Romansh: San Murezzan) is an exclusive resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland

See also

• glacier terminus
• moraine
• postglacial rebound
• outwash plain

External links

• Physical Geography of Palos Hills