esker
English
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Etymology
From Irish eiscir (“esker, glacial ridge”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
esker (plural eskers)
- A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
- 1988, Robert Phillip Sharp, Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation, page 149,
- Another unusual ice-contact feature is an esker, a long, narrow, steep-sided ridge of glaciofluvial sand and gravel inhabiting a glaciated area. Eskers tend to follow valleys and lowlands, carefully picking a course between obstacles.
- 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.
- 1988, Robert Phillip Sharp, Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation, page 149,
Synonyms
Translations
ridge created under glacier
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Basque
Noun
esker ?
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
esker m or f
- indefinite plural of eske
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
esker f
- indefinite plural of eske
Zazaki
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar, “army”), from Persian لشکر (laškar, “army”).
Noun
esker
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