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
The clean-washed esker gravels afford little encouragement to plant growth, and the rain water drains away rapidly through the porous gravel.
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
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