List of glacial moraines

This a partial list of glacial moraines. They are arranged by continents and divided by related hydrologic basins. This list is incomplete. Please improve the listing.

North America

Moraines of the Great Lakes Region

Lake Ontario Basin

  • Oak Ridge
  • Alden[1]
  • Buffalo
  • Niagara Falls[1]

Lake Erie Basin

Moraines south of the Great Lakes

Lake Huron Basin

  • Port Huron[4]
  • Chesanings[4]
  • West Haven
  • Henderson[4]
  • Owosso[4]
  • Flint[4]
  • Otisville[4]
  • St. Johns[4]
  • Fowler[4]
  • Lyons
  • Tawas
  • Alden
Saginaw lobe
  • Charlotte
  • Tekonsha
  • Kalamazoo [4]
  • Sturgis[4]
  • Lagrange[4]
  • Middlebury[4]
  • New Paris[4]
  • Bremen[4]
  • Maxinkuckee[4]
Interlobate ‘thumb’ of Michigan
  • Port Huron[4]
  • Portland
  • Lyons
  • Fowler
  • Imlay and Goodland
  • Otter Lake (St. Johns)
  • Otisville
  • Deanville
  • Mayville
  • Owosso
  • Yale
  • St. Juniata

Lake Michigan Basin

  • Marseilles
  • Bloomington
  • Champaign
    • Cerro Gordo
  • Shelbyville
  • Illinoian

Lake Superior Basin

  • Nickerson[5]
  • Fond du Lac[5]
  • Highland [5]
  • Grand Marais
  • Marenisco

Moraines of the Quebec and Ontario, Canada

Oak Ridge Moraine

Moraines of the Maritimes of Canada and NE United States

Moraines of Western Canada

Moraines of the Great Plains of the United States

Moraines of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mountains

Europe

Antarctica

South America

  • Rio Blanco [6] - Argentina
  • Hatcher [6] - Argentina
  • Caracoles[6] - Argentina
  • Gorra de Poivre[6] - Argentina
  • Horcones[7] – Argentina
  • Penitentes[6]
  • Punt de Vacas[6]
  • Lago Sarmiento I[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Lago Sarmiento II[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Lago Sarmiento III[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Cordillera Paine IV[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Cordillera Paine V[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Cordillera Paine VI[6] – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina

References

  1. 1 2 3 Chapter XVIII, Glacial Lake Wayne; Frank B. Taylor; The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan, History of the Great Lakes; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Vol. LIII; Frank Leverett and Frank B. Taylor; Washington, D.C,; Government Printing Office; 1915
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Chapter 13, Minor Moraines of the Late Wisconsin Stage; Monographs of the United State Geological Survey XLI; Frank Leverett; U.S. Government Printing Office; Washington; 1901
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Geology of the Great Lakes Hough, Jack L.; University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1958
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes, Monograph LIII; Frank Leverett & Frank B. Taylor, U.S. Geological Survey; Government Printing Office, Washington; 1915
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Professional Paper 154—A, Moriaines and Shore Lines of Lake Superior Basin: Frank Leverett; United States Government Printing Office, Washington; February 9, 1929; (Pages 1-72)
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and deglacial events in central Argentine Patagonia; Andrew S. Hein, Nicholas R.J. Hulton, Tibor J. Dunai, David E. Sugden, Michael R. Kaplan, Sheng Xu; Quaternary Science Reviews journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/quascirev; (2010) 1–16
  7. ↑ The quaternary glaciation of Chile: a review; Chalmers M. Clapperton; Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 67: 369 - 383, 1994
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Quaternary Glaciations in the Andes of North-Central Chile; Cesar N. Caviedes and Roland P Askoff; Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 14, No. 70, 1975
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.