Are Michigan Moraines Sorted or Unsorted?

Michigan is covered with unsorted moraine deposits. The moraine deposits follow the outline of Great Lakes. Other depositional features such as drumlins and kettle lakes are found throughout Michigan. Erosional features like striations are found in Michigan as well.

Are moraines sorted?

Moraine is the name for raw glacial debris, the rock that is loosened and carried by glacial ice, then deposited where the ice melts. Moraine has one of the most chaotic characters of any deposit, made up of totally unsorted rocks with no sorting whatsoever--just dropped when the ice melts.

Are moraines sorted and layered?

A thin, widespread layer of till deposited across the surface as an ice sheet melts is called a ground moraine. ... The sediments deposited by glacial meltwater are called outwash. Since they have been transported by running water, the outwash deposits are braided, sorted, and layered.