esker
Example Sentences
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Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques.
From Literature
The Lost 40’s geology includes an 11,000-year-old ice age relic known as an esker, which VanNingen described as a “glacial, gravelly deposit.”
From Washington Times
The incredible terrain is in northern Canada, which is ridged with thousands of eskers — the sinuous, gravelly remains of streams and rivers that flowed beneath the ice.
From Scientific American
These ridges of gravel and sand are known as osars or eskers.
From Project Gutenberg
In places where the low ground is marshy, roads and railways often follow the ridge-lines of hills, Lines of communication. or, as in Finland, the old glacial eskers, which run parallel to the shore.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
