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What does esker mean?

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Noun
  1. A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.
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Ice-contact and glaciofluvial deposits are tens of metres thick and are contained in five north-trending esker ridges.
I often saw Father Callaghan in esker and the people brought to him in carts.
Under that end of this esker which pointed nearest to the south-west, stood the chapel we have just mentioned.
Visitors can also retrace the steps of Samuel Hearne by climbing the esker that was his vantage point on Shethanei Lake.
Locally, thin sheets of gravel may extend the esker aquifer laterally to include aquifers at the contact between sediment and bedrock.
I'll be bound he's on the esker, looking afther the sheep, poor crathurs, durin' Andy Connor's illness in the small-pock.

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