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esker (noun): A long, narrow ridge of gravel and sand deposited by a meltwater stream flowing beneath a glacier
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Long eskers and uplands are also common.
The land comprises drumlins and eskers.
Eskers were left behind by ancient glacial streams.
The valley floors also exhibit inset eskers.
Eskers are common in the upper river basin.
Similar facies occur in adjoining eskers.
Eskers formed under the ice.
Continuous and discontinuous eskers are common.
Eskers wind across the land.
Curved ridges are probably eskers which formed under glaciers.
They frequently show signs of subsequent depositions such as eskers.
Meandering eskers and lines of boulders crisscross the plateau.
The retreating glacier also left eskers and erratics.
The importance of eskers was identified at all stages of the review.
Maine has some of the longest eskers in the world.
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A large number of eskers which form under ice are found there.
Portions of the road are built directly on top of glacial eskers.
During scoping the value of eskers to wildlife was noted many times.
These deposits are called eskers.
The many eskers and moraines and plentiful lakes made a permanent impression on many.
There are two eskers.
Eskers provide the main travel corridor in the area for both wildlife and human visitors.
The striking glacial features in this area are glacial erratic boulders and eskers.
Interlobate eskers are the largest esker landforms in Finland.
The retreating glaciers have left the land with morainic deposits in formations of eskers.
Eskers are found north of Zessin.
One of the puzzles that geologists occasionally ponder is the nature of eskers and drumlins.
There are a number Eskers in the counties landscape including Esker Riada.
The Panel concludes that the effects of the Project on eskers are mitigable.
Nature 's beautiful eskers and bodies of water.
Eskers of ash wait to be scooped up, lives reconstituted.
In geological terms, these ridges are called eskers.
Examples of moraines, eskers and kettles can be found in the park.
Isolated, sinuous deposits of boulder gravel may be eskers.
After it froze solid, the ice formed eskers which are visible today.
Eskers are narrow, elongated, often sinuous ridges created in subglacial tunnels by draining meltwater.
During deglaciation, meltwater formed numerous eskers and sandurs.
By contrast, eskers within tunnel channels record a return to seasonally driven meltwater drainage.
However, some areas can not be explained by the presence of eskers or faults.
These eskers would indicate a large, thick sheet of ice once covered this region.
It leaves a deep valley and enters into a flat country, uniquely marked by some eskers.
Moraines and eskers, Glacial activity may leave ridges in the form of moraines and eskers.
Artifacts from pre-contact peoples have been found where the eskers are near water.
Eskers as high as 50 metres dominate the landscape in this park.
The Livingstone Lake drumlins are closely related to tunnel valleys, large crescentic scours, and eskers.
Eskers may be broad-crested or sharp-crested with steep sides.
To learn more about the Pavillon, please visit Pavillon des eskers.
The ‘mountains' are actually steep eskers formed by melting permafrost.
Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers.
There are multiple glacial formations, ponds, and eskers in the mountain.
