roche moutonnée

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ɹɒʃ muːˈtɒneɪ/

Noun

roche moutonnée

1. (geography, glaciology) A rock formation created by glacial erosion.

   Synonyms: sheepback

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 100:

     Some are obviously roches moutonnées, polished and shaped by the ice-sheet that covered this whole landscape during the last million years of the Pleistocene ice age – a geological yesterday compared with the formation of the Alpine chain itself.

Translations

• French: roche moutonnée

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