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This is about my Town.
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Not sure I feel about this. The only thing so far That gets me is the Expolsions from time to time.
But in the 80's this hill Belonged to the School District. They used it to teach kids Logging Operations. That way they could get Jobs after they get out of school. The Marines(when I was Stationed up Here) Put in a road so they could get their Equipment to the different landings. We used rock from the sight they are now Mining.
Not sure when the school district sold off the land.
We have several of these peaks in the area and they are all great Places to get gravel. This end of the valley is loaded with them.
They are called terminal moraine
quote:A terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a moraine
Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced or it may have...
that forms at the end of the glacierGlacierA glacier is a large persistent body of ice. Originating on land, a glacier flows slowly due to stresses induced by its weight. The crevasses and other distinguishing features of a glacier are due to its flow. Another consequence of glacier flow is the transport of rock and debris abraded from its...
called the snoutGlacier terminusA glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...
.
Terminal moraines mark the maximum advance of the glacier. An end moraine is at the present boundary of the glacier.
Terminal moraines are one of the most prominent types of moraines in the ArcticArcticThe Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and all or parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless...
. One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in NorwayNorwayNorway .ogg|Norge|help=no}} or ), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island . Norway has a total area of and a population of...
which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm. It is now known that terminal moraines are created at the edge of the greatest extent of the glacier. At this point, the debris that has been accumulated by plucking and abrasion, that has been pushed by the front edge of the ice is driven no farther, but instead is dumped in a heap. Because the glacier acts very much like a conveyor beltConveyor beltA conveyor belt consists of two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward. The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley...
, the longer it stays in one place, the greater the amount of material that will be deposited. The moraine is left as the marking point of the terminal extent of the ice.
In North America, the Outer LandsOuter LandsThe Outer Lands is a term denoting the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States...
is a name given to the terminal moraine archipelagoArchipelagoAn archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek #7940;#961;#967;#953;- - arkhi- and #960;#941;#955;#945;#947;#959;#962; - p?lagos through the Italian arcipelago...
of the northeastAtlantic NortheastThe Atlantic Northeast is a region of North America, comprising New England in the United States and the Maritimes in Canada. Definitions of the region vary; in New England it may be restricted to the rural north, and it may also extend to all of Atlantic Canada.The region is noted for a cultural...
United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
(Cape CodCape CodCape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is an island and a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County...
, Martha's VineyardMartha's VineyardMartha's Vineyard is an island off the south of Cape Cod in New England, known for being an affluent summer colony...
, Nantucket, Block IslandBlock IslandBlock Island is part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately south of the coast of Rhode Island, east of Montauk Point on Long Island, and is separated from the Rhode Island mainland by Block Island Sound. The United States Census Bureau defines Block...
and Long IslandLong IslandLong Island is an island located in the southeast of the US state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs...
). Other prominent examples of terminal moraines are the Tinley MoraineTinley MoraineThe Tinley Moraine is a moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America. It was formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation and is younger than the higher and wider terminal moraine called the Valparaiso Moraine farther from the lake than it. Compared to the Valparaiso Moraine, the Tinley...
and the Valparaiso MoraineValparaiso MoraineThe Valparaiso Moraine is a terminal moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of high, hilly terrain made up of glacial till and sand that reaches an elevation of near 300 feet above the level of Lake Michigan at its maximum height in Indiana and 17 miles wide at its...
, perhaps the best examples of terminal moraines in North America. These moraines are most clearly seen southwest of Chicago.
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Not sure I feel about this. The only thing so far That gets me is the Expolsions from time to time.
But in the 80's this hill Belonged to the School District. They used it to teach kids Logging Operations. That way they could get Jobs after they get out of school. The Marines(when I was Stationed up Here) Put in a road so they could get their Equipment to the different landings. We used rock from the sight they are now Mining.
Not sure when the school district sold off the land.
We have several of these peaks in the area and they are all great Places to get gravel. This end of the valley is loaded with them.
They are called terminal moraine
quote:A terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a moraine
Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced or it may have...
that forms at the end of the glacierGlacierA glacier is a large persistent body of ice. Originating on land, a glacier flows slowly due to stresses induced by its weight. The crevasses and other distinguishing features of a glacier are due to its flow. Another consequence of glacier flow is the transport of rock and debris abraded from its...
called the snoutGlacier terminusA glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...
.
Terminal moraines mark the maximum advance of the glacier. An end moraine is at the present boundary of the glacier.
Terminal moraines are one of the most prominent types of moraines in the ArcticArcticThe Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and all or parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless...
. One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in NorwayNorwayNorway .ogg|Norge|help=no}} or ), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen, the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island . Norway has a total area of and a population of...
which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm. It is now known that terminal moraines are created at the edge of the greatest extent of the glacier. At this point, the debris that has been accumulated by plucking and abrasion, that has been pushed by the front edge of the ice is driven no farther, but instead is dumped in a heap. Because the glacier acts very much like a conveyor beltConveyor beltA conveyor belt consists of two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material - the conveyor belt - that rotates about them. One or both of the pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward. The powered pulley is called the drive pulley while the unpowered pulley...
, the longer it stays in one place, the greater the amount of material that will be deposited. The moraine is left as the marking point of the terminal extent of the ice.
In North America, the Outer LandsOuter LandsThe Outer Lands is a term denoting the prominent terminal moraine archipelagic region off the southern coast of New England in the United States...
is a name given to the terminal moraine archipelagoArchipelagoAn archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek #7940;#961;#967;#953;- - arkhi- and #960;#941;#955;#945;#947;#959;#962; - p?lagos through the Italian arcipelago...
of the northeastAtlantic NortheastThe Atlantic Northeast is a region of North America, comprising New England in the United States and the Maritimes in Canada. Definitions of the region vary; in New England it may be restricted to the rural north, and it may also extend to all of Atlantic Canada.The region is noted for a cultural...
United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
(Cape CodCape CodCape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is an island and a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. It is coextensive with Barnstable County...
, Martha's VineyardMartha's VineyardMartha's Vineyard is an island off the south of Cape Cod in New England, known for being an affluent summer colony...
, Nantucket, Block IslandBlock IslandBlock Island is part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately south of the coast of Rhode Island, east of Montauk Point on Long Island, and is separated from the Rhode Island mainland by Block Island Sound. The United States Census Bureau defines Block...
and Long IslandLong IslandLong Island is an island located in the southeast of the US state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs...
). Other prominent examples of terminal moraines are the Tinley MoraineTinley MoraineThe Tinley Moraine is a moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America. It was formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation and is younger than the higher and wider terminal moraine called the Valparaiso Moraine farther from the lake than it. Compared to the Valparaiso Moraine, the Tinley...
and the Valparaiso MoraineValparaiso MoraineThe Valparaiso Moraine is a terminal moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of high, hilly terrain made up of glacial till and sand that reaches an elevation of near 300 feet above the level of Lake Michigan at its maximum height in Indiana and 17 miles wide at its...
, perhaps the best examples of terminal moraines in North America. These moraines are most clearly seen southwest of Chicago.