Question

The moraine deposited at the base of a glacier is called ................. moraine. (side, ground, medical, terminal)

Answer 1

It is terminal moraine

Answer 2

The moraine deposited at the base of a glacier is called terminal moraine.

Reason:

A moraine is left out material of a shifting glacier or ice sheets. It completely incorporates soil and rock. As streams convey along a wide range of flotsam and jetsam and sediment that inevitably develops to shape deltas, likewise the left out of the moving glaciers gets converted as moraine. Based upon its location they are classified as:

Lateral moraine – Deposition along the sides of the glacier.

Medial Moraine – Deposition at the top as well as inside the newly forming glacier.

Super glacial moraine – Deposition on the glacier’s surface.

Terminal moraine- Deposition at the base of a glacier.