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Glacial Moraine & Till Deposition Simulator

Watch a valley glacier's conveyor-belt debris transport in action: rock debris rides the ice toward the terminus and melts out as unsorted till, piling into terminal and recessional moraine ridges as climate balance drives advance and retreat.

Climate, Ecology & Environment3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
glacial-moraine-till-deposition ↗ Open standalone

A valley glacier is a conveyor belt for rock debris: material falling from the valley walls or plucked from bedrock rides embedded in the flowing ice until it reaches the melt-dominated margin, where it drops out as unsorted till. This simulator models that transport with a simplified Glen's-flow-law velocity profile along the glacier, lets you drive the terminus forward or backward with a climate mass-balance control, and renders the resulting till directly as a growing moraine ridge — sharp and tall during a stillstand, spread thin as ground moraine during a steady retreat, and pushed and reworked when the ice readvances over its own debris.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch a valley glacier's conveyor-belt debris transport in action: rock debris rides the ice toward the terminus and melts out as unsorted till, piling into terminal and recessional moraine ridges as climate mass balance drives advance and retreat.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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