Moraine is rock debris, fallen or plucked from a mountain and transported by glaciers or ice sheets.
Lateralmoraine: The talus and other material from the sides of a glacial valley accumulated on the glacier and carried along with it.
Interlobate moraine: If large glaciers and continental ice sheets advance irregularly so that their margins are lobate, when the margins retreat by melting the resulting terminal moraines of boulders, clay, and sand simulate the original interlobate shape of the glacier or glaciers, therefore such moraines are called interlobate moraine.
Moraine is the general term for debris of all sorts originally transported by glaciers or ice sheets that have since melted away.
If one or more tributary glaciers coalesce with the main glacier the lateralmoraines unite to form trains of debris on the surface of the glacier at or near its center, called medial moraines.
If large glaciers and continental ice sheets advance irregularly so that their margins are lobate, when the margins retreat by melting the the resulting terminal moraines of boulders, clay, and sand simulate the original interlobate shape of the glacier or glaciers, and therefore such moraines are called interlobate.
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