Read the following excerpt from The Works of John Playfair (1822). What glacial landform is being described?

"…For the moving of large masses of rock, the most powerful engines without doubt that nature employs are the glaciers….[Rock] fragments they gradually transport to their utmost boundaries, where a formidable wall ascertains the magnitude, and attests the force, of the great engine by which it was erected."

A) Arête
B) Drumlin
C) Horn
D) Moraine


Answer: D

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