esker

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Glaciofluvial sediments are deposited by glacial streams, either forming eskers or large proglacial plains known as sandurs.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

For Maine, the diagram shows how glaciers form eskers, drumlins and kames.

From Time Magazine Archive

The museum is really two eskers linked underground.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every foot of the landscape from here on north would be scored and scarred with reminders of glaciation—scattered boulders called erratics, drumlins, eskers, high tarns, cirques.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

We may infer that eskers were deposited in the tunnels and ice-walled gorges of glacial streams before they issued from the ice front.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon