kame

C0048500 (kām)n. A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice.

[Dialectal, a low ridge, from Middle English camb, comb, comb, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.]

kame

(keɪm) n (Physical Geography) an irregular mound or ridge of gravel, sand, etc, deposited by water derived from melting glaciers[C19: Scottish and northern English variant of comb]

kame

(keɪm)

n. a ridge or mound of stratified drift left by a retreating ice sheet. [1860–65; special use of Scots, N dial. kame comb (Middle English (dial.) camb, kambe, Old English camb, comb); see comb]

kame

(kām), low, steep, rounded hill or ridge of layered sand and gravel drift, developed from glacial deposits. Kames were probably formed by streams of melting glacial ice that deposited mud and sand along the ice front. The subsequent retreat of the glacier left them as more or less isolated hills and ridges, ranging in height from a few feet to 100 ft (30 m) or more. Kames generally occur in clusters and are situated directly behind a mass of rock and soil called a terminal morainemoraine
, a formation composed of unsorted and unbedded rock and soil debris called till, which was deposited by a glacier. The till that falls on the sides of a valley glacier from the bounding cliffs makes up lateral moraines, running parallel to the valley sides.
..... Click the link for more information. . They are common in the glaciated valleys of the Scottish Lowlands, where the name originated.

kame

[kām] (geology) A low, long, steep-sided mound of glacial drift, commonly stratified sand and gravel, deposited as an alluvial fan or delta at the terminal margin of a melting glacier.

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