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Geologic units containing moraine

Earth material > Unconsolidated material > Glacial drift > Till

Moraine

A mound, ridge, or other distinct accumulation of unsorted, unstratified glacial drift, predominantly till, deposited chiefly by direct action of glacial ice...

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Oregon - Washington

Oregon

Glacial deposits (Pleistocene) (Pleistocene): Unsorted bouldery gravel, sand, and rock flour in ground, terminal, and lateral moraines. Locally partly sorted

Washington

Younger glacial drift (Pleistocene): Till. Hard, blue-gray to gray concrete-like mixture of clay, silt, sand, and gravel deposited as end or recessional moraine. Principally Wisconsin in age.

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