esker

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Some 15,000 years ago, when the Laurentide ice sheet receded from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, it left behind an esker, an upside-down riverbed of well-drained sand.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

When the ice recedes, the sediment remains as a long sinuous ridge known as an esker.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

When the ice recedes, the sediment will remain to form a long sinuous ridge known as an esker.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Greenhill Rapids is a �-mile-long cauldron across the backbone of an esker, one of those weird rock formations created by the dragging fingers of a receding glacier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two and a half miles south of Lanesville on the west side of the lowland, a wooded esker extends for about one-quarter mile parallel to the valley axis and then merges into the rocky hillside.

From Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Sawyer-Harvey, Ruth