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Definition of Eskers
1. esker [n] - See also: esker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eskers
Literary usage of Eskers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"Stone's monograph is the most complete contribution yet made to the natural
history of eskers; and no one has discussed the theory of eskers more fully and ..."
2. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1902)
"eskers.—Where the depositing subglacial stream remained fixed in position, the
deposition was more concentrated, and its channel was aggraded. ..."
3. The Glacial Geology of New Jersey: By Rollin D. Salisbury, Assisted by Henry by Rollin D. Salisbury, Henry Barnard Kümmel, Charles Emerson Peet, George N. Knapp (1902)
"It is not to be inferred that eskers never originated in other ways, ...
eskers early attracted attention, partly because they are relatively rare, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The northwestern portion shows a considerable amount, chiefly in the form of
eskers and kame-terraces. Many fine eskers can be followed on the road from ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The northwestern portion shows a considerable amount, chiefly in the form of
eskers and kame-terraces. Many fine eskers can be followed on the road from ..."
6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1875)
"In some fringe-eskers, as pointed out in one of the papers previously ...
Although it seems to me that the great systems of eskers in Ireland are due to the ..."
7. Manual of the Geology of Connecticut by William North Rice, Herbert Ernest Gregory (1908)
"eskers.— Streams running underneath the ice for any great distance, and fed by the
... Ridges of stratified drift formed in this manner are called eskers, ..."
8. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1877)
"ON THE ORIGIN OF KAMES OR eskers IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. By WARREN UPHAM, of Nashua,
NH THE river-lands of New Hampshire, composed of modified drift and alluvium, ..."
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