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Definition of kame in English: kamenoun keɪmkām Geology A steep-sided mound of sand and gravel deposited by a melting ice sheet. Example sentencesExamples - Ice contact features known to early geologists included kettles (correctly interpreted by Whittlesey in 1859) and kames.
- A total of 313 species in 85 families and 204 genera were collected at the 30-hectare preserve which occurs on a glacial kame and has a rugged ridge and ravine topography.
- It is characterized by moraines of the Weichselian Pleniglacial with intercalated outwash sediments including kame deposits, dead-ice depressions with lakes, fens or wetlands, and Late Saalian moraines in the south.
- Elsewhere, small mounds (kames) are formed of cross-stratified sand deposited by streams from the ice.
- The forest research area extends southward from the fen and is better drained because of a gradient caused by the rise onto a kame terrace (Twin Lakes in Fig.
Origin Late 18th century: Scots form of comb. Definition of kame in US English: kamenounkām Geology A steep-sided mound of sand and gravel deposited by a melting ice sheet. Example sentencesExamples - The forest research area extends southward from the fen and is better drained because of a gradient caused by the rise onto a kame terrace (Twin Lakes in Fig.
- It is characterized by moraines of the Weichselian Pleniglacial with intercalated outwash sediments including kame deposits, dead-ice depressions with lakes, fens or wetlands, and Late Saalian moraines in the south.
- Elsewhere, small mounds (kames) are formed of cross-stratified sand deposited by streams from the ice.
- A total of 313 species in 85 families and 204 genera were collected at the 30-hectare preserve which occurs on a glacial kame and has a rugged ridge and ravine topography.
- Ice contact features known to early geologists included kettles (correctly interpreted by Whittlesey in 1859) and kames.
Origin Late 18th century: Scots form of comb. |