(n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, Corbicula from several tributaries draining alluvium derived from the Sierra Nevada had lower As concentrations than would be predicted by the relation developed for perennial flow sites of the San Joaquin River.
Moraine
Definition:
(n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
Example Sentences:
(1) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
(2) Mr Hintze wrote on the website: "My support for the Conservative party is something I am immensely proud of and I am pleased to be able to help, both with the declared donations I have made and through the loan from the UK-based trading company, Morain UK, of which I am an ultimate beneficiary and which responded to the party's need for support by agreeing to a secured loan on commercial terms last year."
(3) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
(4) Mr Hintze, who is a generous donor to the arts, notably the Victoria and Albert museum, used his offshore Channel Islands company Morain Investments to provide the loan.
(5) • £710pp in traditional Chalet La Moraine (sleeps 12) on 18 December (or £950pp starting 26 December), travel extra.
(6) One of the best places to stay is Moraine Park Campground, 2½ miles south of the Beaver Meadows entrance.
(7) This paper concerns the microbiological part of an investigation, the goal of which is to describe the biological changes in coniferous forest soil upon clear-cutting in a northern (66 degrees 20'N) moraine area where reforestation after clear-cutting had been met with difficulty.
(8) • Cabins from $142 a night, bunks from $49, grandcanyonlodges.com , book well in advance Rocky Mountain , Colorado Facebook Twitter Pinterest Moraine Park Campground.
(9) Everest base camp is particularly vulnerable because it is on a shoulder of rocky glacial moraine below the Khumbu Icefall – a maze of crevasses and tottering glacial ice cliffs – through which climbers must navigate an often dangerous path.
(10) "There were lots of Sherpas standing on the moraine watching us, but we knew they wouldn't follow.
(11) It sits on the remains of a glacial moraine: a pile of rocks and debris left behind by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age.
(12) If the moraines which dam the lake are breached, thousands of lives in the most densely populated Sherpa valley in Nepal are at risk from flooding and landslides.
(13) In the second part of the work, results are furnished on the BaP content in the ice of modern glaciers and their moraines, located in Kamchatka.
(14) At the Moraine Park Campground (+1 518-885-3639, reservations recommended, pitches from $14 a night) you can overnight within sight of the herds.
(15) Park entrance from $10 a vehicle (valid for seven days) Estes Park: Wildlife watching Photograph: Alamy No need to bring binoculars to Moraine Park, a high-alpine valley where elk let hikers approach within 100ft.
(16) People in tents were wrapped up in them, lifted by the force of the blast and then slammed down onto rocks, glacial moraine and ice on the glacier.” Kedrowski estimated that 40-50% of base camp, which is at 5,545m, had been destroyed.