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An undulating hilly belt consisting of an unsorted mixture of clay, silt, boulders, cobbles, and pebbles that was brought by the moving ice in traction on the surface and accumulated beneath the ice margin (Figures 1 and 2). They are also termed as “glacier till” deposits or “moraines” and are exposed after the ice mass has disappeared. Melting of small ice blocks in this hilly belt, which is also described as “knob and kettle landscape,” gives rise to the formation of kettles and may contain small lakes and ponds.
Marginal deposits of ice sheets before deglaciation.
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Bhutiyani, M.R. (2011). Ice-Marginal Deposition. In: Singh, V.P., Singh, P., Haritashya, U.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2642-2_288
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