Union Moraine

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rdf:langString The Union Moraine begins in Ohio, east of Bellefontaine and the highest point in that state, (Campbell Hill, 1,549 feet (472 m)) towards Greenville in Darke County. Traveling southwestward and arcing a little northward, the moraine reaches Union City, Ohio for which it is named. From here, it travels almost directly westward to Muncie, Indiana. From Muncie, the moraine runs northwest ending in the bluffs overlooking Pipe Creek at Bunker Hill, Indiana, just south of Peru on the Wabash River. The ‘’’Union City Moraine’’ is the outer ring of a series of moraines created by the Huron-Erie lobe of the Laurentian Glacier. The moraine has no significant feature, but represents a late surge in the glacial lobe. The moraine in east-central Indiana is covered with low relief ice-disintegration ridges and hummocks crossed by many ice-walled channels and eskers. This creates a rugged terrain in southern Delaware County. Most of the ice-walled channels end at the proximal edge of the . Two major esker systems, one at Anderson and the other at Muncie, are part of this pattern, leading to the Big Blue River Sluiceway.