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esker

Eschar \Es"char\, n. [Ir.] (Geol.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. [Written also eskar and esker.] [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
esker

"deposit left by a glacial stream," 1852, from Irish eiscir "ridge of gravel."

Wiktionary
esker

n. A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.

WordNet
esker

n. (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets

Wikipedia
Esker

An esker, eskar, eschar, or os, sometimes called an asar, osar, or serpent kame, 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 kilometres long and, because of their peculiar uniform shape, are somewhat like railway embankments.

Esker (disambiguation)

An esker is a ridge of sand and gravel.

Esker may also refer to:

  • An eschar, slough or dead tissue
  • Esker, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
  • Esker, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  • Esker, a townland in East Galway
  • Esker, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Esker SA, a French software company

Usage examples of "esker".

When they reached the rounded ridge of the esker, they stopped for a rest, and looking back, Ayla saw the glacier unshrouded by mists from the perspective of distance for the first time.

They'd eaten - Bart was absent, asleep, one of the other cooks said, yawning - and were getting their travel rations when Esker came in with six people, five men and a woman who was nearly as tall as Kris.

They were riding in pure sand and the horses labored so hugely that the men were obliged to dismount and lead them, toiling up steep eskers where the wind blew the white pumice from the crests like the spume from sea swells and the sand was scalloped and fraily shaped and nothing else was there save random polished bones.

Halak saw that the valley was really a couloir, surrounded by eskers and moraines—rocks and boulders pushed into piles by a glacier as it had advanced and then retreated.

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.

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.

Another time they encountered an ancient raised railroad bed, crossing a broad wetland like some improbably straight esker.