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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
  • Buffalo
  • Niagara Falls
  • Forest
  • Gowanda
  • Hamburg
  • Marilla
  • Alden
  • Pembroke
  • Batavia
  • Barre
  • Alboin

Lake Erie Basin

Moraines south of the Great Lakes

Lake Huron Basin

  • Port Huron
  • Chesanings
  • West Haven
  • Henderson
  • Owosso
  • Flint
  • Otisville
  • St. Johns
  • Fowler
  • Lyons
  • Tawas
  • Alden


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

Lake Michigan Basin

Lake Superior Basin

  • Beroun
  • Mille Lacs
  • Wright
  • Cromwell
  • Draco
  • Cloquet
  • Thompson
  • Kerrick
  • Nickerson
  • Fond du Lac
  • Highland
  • 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

Queen Maud Land

Ross Dependency

South America

See also: Southern Patagonian Ice Field
  • Rio Blanco - Argentina
  • Hatcher - Argentina
  • Caracoles - Argentina
  • Gorra de Poivre - Argentina
  • Horcones – Argentina
  • Penitentes
  • Punt de Vacas
  • Lago Sarmiento I – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Lago Sarmiento II – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Lago Sarmiento III – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Cordillera Paine IV – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Cordillera Paine V – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Cordillera Paine VI – South Patagonian Icefield - Argentina
  • Rio Laguna – Chile
  • Rio Seco at Rio Laguna - Chile
  • Ojos de Agua - Chile
  • Portillo - Chile
  • Guardia Vieja - Chile
  • Salto del Soldado - Chile

References

  1. ^ 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. ^ Chapter 13, Minor Moraines of the Late Wisconsin Stage; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey XLI; Frank Leverett; U.S. Government Printing Office; Washington; 1901
  3. ^ Geology of the Great Lakes Hough, Jack L.; University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1958
  4. ^ Leverett, Frank; Taylor, Frank B. (1915). The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes, Monograph LIII. Washington: U.S. Geological Survey; Government Printing Office.
  5. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ Quaternary Glaciations in the Andes of North-Central Chile; Cesar N. Caviedes and Roland P Askoff; Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 14, No. 70, 1975
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