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24-AUG-2005

Glacial Moraine

The wavy dark lines are called a moraine, and are usually formed when two glaciers merge, with rocks and boulders pushed between them. Sometimes they are formed when a large rock outcropping is crushed by a glacier, and the debris is carried down the glacier.

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