Definition of "moraines" [moraines]

• Plural form of moraine. (noun)

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• "They will be dropped at the end of the glacier, and mixed with silt and sand and other stones which have come down inside the glacier itself, and piled up in the field in great mounds, which are called moraines, such as you may see and walk on in Scotland many a time, though you might never guess what they are."
• "Flowing glaciers carry rocks and dirt which build up mounds and ridges, called moraines, at the downhill end of the glacier."
• "Here form features called moraines, consisting of cobbles, gravel, silt, etc. ... the dirty crap that the glacier has chewed up as it grew that is now being spewed out the edge like the icky sandy stuff you see all over parking lots in the spring when the winter snow melts (this will mean nothing to those of you living in warm environments, of course)."