esker
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
esker (plural eskers)
- A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
- 1999, L. Clayton, J. W. Attig, D. M. Mickelson, Tunnel channels formed in Wisconsin during the last glaciation, David M. Mickelson, John W. Attig (editors), Glacial Processes, Past and Present, page 77 ↗,
- Another objection to the tunnel-valley interpretation comes from a comparison with eskers. […] The esker rivers and the tunnel-channel rivers of Wisconsin therefore seem to have been the result of significantly different meltwater regimes.
- 2001, Allan D. Randall, Hydrogeologic Framework of Stratified-drift Aquifers in the Glaciated Northeastern United States, US Geological Survey Paper 1415-B, page B37 ↗,
- The multiple deltas must have formed sequentially, which led Thompson (1982) to conclude that the eskers were built in successive segments.
- 1999, L. Clayton, J. W. Attig, D. M. Mickelson, Tunnel channels formed in Wisconsin during the last glaciation, David M. Mickelson, John W. Attig (editors), Glacial Processes, Past and Present, page 77 ↗,
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