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Figure 5. Cross section of the glacier margin in coastal Maine, showing formation of a moraine ridge where the edge of the ice sheet was in the sea. This moraine consists of till interlayered with sand and gravel washing out of the ice. From Thompson (1982).


Last updated on July 24, 2007