esker

But the lumpy gentleman, unwilling to give it up, again madly said, 'ESKER,' and again spake no more.

Ongoing research in the Lac de Gras region is indicating that indicator mineral transport down-ice from eskers may be much shorter than previously understood.

The big melt revealed giant boulders and a peculiarity called eskers, which are great dunes made by the rivers running from the bottom of the glaciers as they melted.

Some sites were trapped over 5, 6, or up to 33 y with permanent trap stations to ascertain if populations persisted in certain habitats (e.g., eskers and clearcuts) and other inventory sites were trapped repeatedly in VNP (Table 2) despite catching no rock voles.

It would go south and west in a relatively direct line, crossing Highway 97 just north of McLeod Lake, then angle north of Eskers Park.

I'm on cloud nine!'' First in the queue was Lorraine Brampton, aged 60, alongside daughter Sophia Eskers, aged 16, and her friend Eliesha Terry, aged 15.

He had broad interests, from raising experimental roses, to traveling with geology guide books in search of eskers, drumlins and glacial striations.

Magnificently showcasing the effects of continental glaciation (in some places the flow of glacial ice was as much as two miles deep) created a variety of geologic features including kames, kettles, drumlins, ice-walled-lake plans, eskers, tunnel channels, basalt bluffs, dells, and rock-strewn terminal moraines.

In 1968, the Geological Survey of Canada began reconnaissance work in the area between Lake Abitibi and Englehart sampling many of the glacial eskers (ridges of gravels left behind by glacial runoff) in the area.

He also includes stories of the native peoples, abandoned mining camps, massive glaciers, expanses of alpine tundra, and enlightening explanations of pingoes, eskers, and suspect terranes." All still true.

The ridge-like morphology of eskers has so far served as the main criterion in the study of these landforms.