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MR. FRY, writing in NATURE (vol. ix. p. 103), says that “a glacier which has retreated from its terminal moraine is always the source of a stream of water, and this stream always cuts through the terminal moraine.” He infers from this that a lake cannot be formed by a moraine damming up a valley.
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MURPHY, J. Moraines. Nature 9, 202 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009202b0
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