| 单词 | esker-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasesker-like ‘The name given in Ireland to the elongated and often flat-topped mounds of post-glacial gravel which occur abundantly in the greater river-valleys of that country’ (Page); (not now restricted to Ireland or to Irish usage). Also in combinations, as esker-like. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > glacial mound moraine1783 osar1842 esker1852 kame1862 sow-back1874 push moraine1890 whaleback1893 recessional moraine1897 Ra1902 Salpausselkä1923 1852 E. Forbes in G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes (1861) xiv. 505 The top of Headon Hill is capped by a great esker of gravel. 1865 D. Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2) 193 Eskirs or Escars. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. v. i. §1. 892 Ridges, known in Scotland as kames, in Ireland as eskers, and in Scandinavia as ösar. 1882 E. O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. iii. 55 Towards sunset we neared the flank of a long escar-like sand ridge. 1917 Nature 2 Aug. 441/2 He considers that the ice-barrier tongues from the Antarctic glaciers are afloat and do not rest on esker-like embankments built of their moraines and subglacial gravels. 1955 Sci. Amer. Sept. 85 Winding across the center [of the Tasnuna Valley, Alaska] is an esker, a narrow ridge of gravel left by a stream that ran through the glacier. 1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. xvi/2 Frozen lakes, eskers and beaches permit the landing of heavily loaded machines for six months of the year. < as lemmas |
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