eskers in English
noun
1
a long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.
Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers , and fluvioglacial deposits.
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1. Later, glaciers and water shaped this landscape, leaving features like cirques, eskers, and alluvial fans.
2. Soils are predominantly clay and silty-clay with glacial features of outwashes, eskers and moraines.