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2 unusual facts about moraine


Moraine, Ohio

The plant continued to manufacture SUVs from the General Motors product line (Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Buick) until 2008 when the plant closed.

A new 34 acre subdivision was created on the eastern side(bordering Miami Township and Kettering, OH) of the City of Moraine in 2007.


Alph River

He took the name from the opening passage of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, Kubla Khan, as the stream continues north a considerable distance under moraine and ultimately subglacially beneath Koettlitz Glacier to the Ross Sea.

Canadian twenty-dollar note

The view of Moraine Lake in Banff National Park from the top of the moraine rockpile is one of the most photographed locations in all of Canada.

Cathedral Group

At the base of the Cathedral Group, several glacial lakes can be found, including Jenny, Bradley and Taggart Lakes, all of which were formed when the glaciers of the last ice age retreated, leaving behind terminal moraines which acted as natural dams.

Chevrolet S-10 Blazer

The S-series SUVs, so named because they were based on the Chevrolet S-10 and GMC S-15 pickup trucks, were produced in Pontiac, Michigan; Linden, New Jersey; Moraine, Ohio; Shreveport, Louisiana; and São Paulo, Brazil (the Brazilian version is based on the second-generation S-series; even though production ceased in the U.S., new Blazers are locally produced in Brazil with their own sheetmetal stampings).

Delco Electronics

During World War I, the Delco plant in Moraine, Ohio was expanded to manufacture the De Havilland DH.4 bomber, the only American-built airplane to see action in World War I.

Edward Andrew Deeds

Deeds was appointed Chief of Aircraft Production in Washington D.C. The Delco plant in Moraine, Ohio was expanded to manufacture the DeHavilland DH.4 bomber, the only American-built airplane to see action in World War I.

Fonthill Kame

The original town of Fonthill is perched on the moraine, although it has spread beyond the hill.

Hanko Peninsula

The soil is a sandy moraine, the last tip of the Salpausselkä ridge, and vegetation consists mainly of pine and low shrubs.

Hindens rev

The latter is in turn part of a series of terminal moraines that runs from southern Norway through Dalsland, Skaraborg and Östergötland, continuing under the Baltic Sea into southern Finland and Russia as the Salpausselkä moraine which separates lakes Ladoga and Saimaa.

Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School

Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School is a Lutheran high school in the Town of Jackson, Washington County, Wisconsin.

Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive

The idea of a route along the Kettle Moraine was believed to be conceived in the early 1940s by the Kettle Moraine Committee of the Izaak Walton League – Milwaukee Chapter, which was the backbone behind the development of the Kettle Moraine State Forest units.

Kettle Mucubají

This moraine changed the course of the ravine from Rio Chama to Rio Orinoco and to the Atlantic Ocean.

Lyle Moraine

Lyle Moraine (February 7, 1914 – February 13, 1988) is best known for writing "Christmas Island" (1946), a song recorded by The Andrews Sisters, Leon Redbone, Jimmy Buffett, Bob Atcher, Bob Dylan, and Petty Booka among others.

Moraine Assembly

On 3 June 2008, GM Chairman Rick Wagoner announced that the Moraine plant would close in December, citing high fuel prices and decreased demand for the SUV and trucks produced by the plant.

Moraine State Park

Preston worked to form the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which purchased the land that became Moraine State Park, recreated the glacial landscape and preserved open spaces.

Morainic drift

Morainic drift is the movement of rock debris (talus) (see also Moraine) left by glaciers.

Oak Ridges Moraine

On July 20, 1999, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Gilchrist announced, on "Rouge Park Day", that he would be implementing a ban on all development on the Oak Ridges Moraine.

Terminal moraine

One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm.

Tinley Moraine

The moraine probably was named after the village of Tinley Park, a village southwest of Chicago that lies on the moraine.

Trafalgar Moraine

The Trafalgar Moraine is approximately 20 km long, 30 m high and 4 km wide, extending from the Niagara Escarpment north of Nelson to Streetsville in an east-northeast trend; at the Oakville boundary, the trend shifts northeast.

Development on the moraine has been limited to regions in Mississauga, and the construction of Highway 407.

Withrow, Washington

It lies on the terminal moraine for the Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which flowed southward through the Okanogan trough from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia blocking the course of the Columbia River and ending on the elevations of the Waterville Plateau.

WSWO-LP

Ultimate Oldies Radio was also heard on its first translator W268AX at 101.5 MHz from Old Troy Pike (SR 202) in north Dayton with a power of 106 watts which provided a wider coverage area reaching downtown Dayton, Moraine, Troy, and the fringe areas in Piqua to the north and Miamisburg to the south.


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