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esker::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ridge |
Examples of esker
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Esker has been sharing knowledge for 38 years, 33 of those years in Collinsville.
From the stltoday.com
Esker said she's having a swimming pool installed at her home this summer.
From the stltoday.com
Esker said she's seen a lot of changes in her 38 years in education.
From the stltoday.com
Esker is one of 17 teachers and administrators retiring from the Collinsville school district this year.
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Esker weaves elements of her personal life into teaching.
From the stltoday.com
Any machinery entering the esker would potentially collapse the tunnel occupied by the woman, endangering her life.
From the theepochtimes.com
With 32 acres, it is recognized as the largest and best-preserved esker in Pennsylvania, according to Ms. Lambert.
From the post-gazette.com
Esker is a technical word in geology.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This was not only very dangerous as it was destabilising the fragile esker of the rath but illegal as Rath Lugh was under a Protection Order.
From the theepochtimes.com
- (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets
- An esker is a long winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. Eskers are frequently several miles long and, because of their peculiar uniform shape, are somewhat like railroad embankments.
- A long, narrow, sinuous ridge of stratified glacial drift deposited by a stream flowing beneath a glacier in a tunnel or in a subglacial stream bed.
- A long ridge of material deposited from meltwater streams running subglacially, roughly parallel to the direction of ice flow.
- A low, winding ridge of fluvioglacial deposits which have been laid within sub-glacial channels, therefore found running along the floor of glacial valleys.
- Long, narrow, high ridge of sand and gravel representing ice-contact deposits of some kind of melt-water stream or delta; generally normal to ice margin, behind major end moraines.
- A narrow, winding ridge of stratified gravelly and sandy drift deposited between ice walls by meltwater channels flowing on, in, or under the glacial ice. See kame.
- A sinuous ridge of fluvial deposits resulting from a sub-glacial melt-water stream.
- An esker is a meandering, water-deposited, generally steep-sided sediment ridge that forms within a subglacial or englacial stream channel. Its floor can be bedrock, sediment, or ice. ...
