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

Does the eye make out A flight of ernes, rising from aits or aeries, Whose shadows track across a harsh terrain Of esker and arete?

From Time Magazine Archive

The area of coarse till is bounded on the north by a long sinuous esker of coarse gravel terminating in a flat fan, which is superposed on a field of fine till.

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