Tinley Moraine

Tinley Moraine

The Tinley Moraine is a moraine around the Lake Michigan basin in North America. It was formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation and is younger than the higher and larger terminal moraine called the Valparaiso Moraine farther from the lake than it. Compared to the Valparaiso Moraine, the Tinley Moraine is much narrower. The moraine probably was named after the village of Tinley Park, a village in Illinois that lies on the moraine.

See also

*Calumet Shoreline
*Kankakee Outwash Plain
*Glenwood Shoreline

References

Schoon, Kenneth J., "Calumet Beginnings", 2003, Indiana University Press p. 20-21 ISBN 025334218X


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