Unlike most glaciers worldwide, Johns Hopkins is advancing rather than retreating, thanks to a terminal moraine—a natural barrier of sediment at its base that slows melting by insulating the ...

The different types of moraine include terminal moraine, which marks the end of an ice sheet or valley glacier, and lateral moraine, which forms at the edge of a glacier at the valley side.

partly thanks to its terminal moraine, comprising crushed rock and other sediment, which effectively barricades the front of the glacier from warmer ocean water that would increase the glacier’s ...

partly thanks to its terminal moraine, comprising crushed rock and other sediment, which effectively barricades the front of the glacier from warmer ocean water that would increase the glacier's ...

Any material carried or moved by a glacier is called moraine. There are three different types of moraine: ...