Dose-- Geography

Eskers

Esker: A long narrow ridge, often sinuous, composed of stratified sediment and marking the former location of a glacial tunnel.

The esker (Ir. Eiscir) is one of the most striking landforms of fluvioglacial deposition. In low-lying, boggy terrain these snaking ridges dominate the terrain, providing vantage points and dry route ways. On valley floors, the eskers lie within former ice margins marked by moraine systems, indicating that these ridges form beneath glaciers. Eskers are aligned parallel to former ice flow. In a valley, an esker will be orientated down-valley and this is one way to distinguish this landform from any moraine ridges running across the valley floor.

DRuMlin
A streamlined, oval-shaped

hill which has been shaped by flowing glacial ice. The long axis is parallel to the direction of ice flow, the up-glacier slope is usually steeper than the lee slope, and composition includes a variety or combination of materials—till, outwash, or bedrock. Drumlins are highly localized, but where present, they occur in large numbers. Some drumlins are clearly erosional in origin, but in others till deposition appears to have been synchronous with drumlin formation. Thus, one or both processes must be operative at some time in the subglacial environment where drumlins form.