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Roche moutonnée - Wikipedia
In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier. The passage of glacial ice over underlying bedrock ... en.wikipedia.org
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Roches moutonnées - AntarcticGlaciers.org
Roches moutonnées are asymmetric bedrock bumps or hills with a gently sloping and abraded upglacier (stoss) face and a quarried (or plucked) downglacier (lee) ... www.antarcticglaciers.org
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Roche moutonnée | glacial erosion, landforms, drumlins - Britannica
Roche moutonnée, glaciated bedrock surface, usually in the form of rounded knobs. The upstream side of a roche moutonnée has been subjected to glacial scouring. www.britannica.com
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Roche moutonnée
In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier. Photo Collection A roche moutonnée, northern Abitibi, Québec, image from Geological Survey of Canada Canadian Landscapes Photo Collection A roche moutonnée wikipedia.org
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Roche Moutonnées - how they are formed - YouTube
This video explains how Roche Moutonnées are formed, using an actual seven metre high example as seen in SE Iceland, to exemplify the ... www.youtube.com
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Rôche moutonnée - Crow's Path
Rôche moutonnées form as a glacier flows over bedrock. Sediments entrained in flowing glacial ice abrade and polish the bedrock on the stoss side. crowspath.org
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roche moutonnée
‖ roche moutonnée Physical Geogr. (rɔʃ mutɔne) [Fr., f. roche rock, roche n.1 + moutonnée moutonnée.] A bare rock outcrop which has been shaped by glacial erosion, characteristically smoothed and rounded by abrasion but often also displaying one side (the ‘downstream’ side) which is rougher and stee... Oxford English Dictionary
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Glaciotectonic disintegration of roches moutonnées during glacial ...
Roches moutonnées are typical landforms of glacial erosion developed in hard rocks, with an asymmetric profile caused by abrasion and lee-side ... www.tandfonline.com
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Why Geologists Think Glacial Mountains Look Like Sheep
The glacially sculpted boulders and hills known today as roches moutonnées look like 18th-century wigs, which apparently got their name from mutton fat. www.theatlantic.com
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Roche moutonnée – en - Géologie Québec
Roches moutonnées are asymmetrical rock outcrops characterized by a gently sloping up-ice side with a polished surface (stoss), and a down-ice side with a ... gq.mines.gouv.qc.ca
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Roche Moutonnée - AQA Geography for AS Level
This is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier over underlying bedrock, resulting in asymmetrical erosional forms. epicgeography.wordpress.com
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[PDF] Roche Moutonnée in the Okanogan
In our area we have distinctive mountains and hills called roche moutonnée that were formed by the erosional action of moving ice sheets dominating the northern ... okanoganhighlands.org
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Rosthwaite, Borrowdale
The town nestles underneath the How, a large roche moutonnée, with a smaller roche moutonnée being further to the west. wikipedia.org
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whaleback
whaleback (ˈhweɪlbæk) [f. whale n. + back n.] 1. An arched structure over the deck of a steamer; = turtle-back 1.1886 Times 20 Apr. 10/2 He was standing under the whaleback. 2. A kind of steam vessel having a spoon bow and the main decks covered in and rounded over, suggesting the back of a whale.18... Oxford English Dictionary
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moutonnée
‖ moutonnée, a. Geol. (mutɔne) Also in adapted form moutonnéed. [Fr. (in roche moutonnée), fem. pa. pple. of moutonner, f. mouton sheep: see mutton.] Rounded like a sheep's back: said of rocks that have been subjected to glacial action.1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks ii. 23 At a point close to the roa... Oxford English Dictionary
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