Existing or occurring outside the moraine or glacial deposits; used in geology to describe features beyond glacial formation zones.
From Latin 'extra' (outside) + 'moraine' (from French, from alpine dialect). This geological term specifies areas geographically distinct from glacial debris fields.
Glaciers carved the landscape so differently that geologists had to invent special words to describe what was and wasn't touched by ice. The 'extramorainal' zones tell you where the ice age's reach ended—a geological time stamp on the landscape.
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