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- noun Plural form of
kame .
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Examples
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When it began to melt and retreat, it was the chief agent in building up our river terraces, and our long, low, rounded hills of sand and gravel and clay, called kames and drumlins.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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I could show you everywhere the green banks and knolls of earth, which Scotch people call "kames" and "tomans" -- perhaps brought down by ancient glaciers, or dropped by ancient icebergs -- now so smooth and green through summer and through winter, among the wild heath and the rough peat-moss, that the old Scots fancied, and I dare say Scotch children fancy still, fairies dwelt inside.
Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847
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•Stratified drift, in the form of outwash plains, deltas, kames, and moraines, fills main stream valleys.
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Stratified glaciofluvial drift typically occurs on outwash terraces and kames.
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In areas that are immediately south of the Wisconsinan limit, outwash terraces and kames may occur.
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Broad till plains with thick and complex deposits of drift, paleobeach ridges, relict dunes, morainal hills, kames, drumlins, meltwater channels, and kettles occur.
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The Elkhart Till Plains ecoregion is punctuated by end moraines, kames, and lacustrine flats; kettlehole lakes occur but are much rarer than in Ecoregion 56a while sand dunes are less common than in Ecoregions 54d or 56d.
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The well-drained end moraines and kames once supported oak-hickory forests whereas wetter areas had beech forests or northern swamp forests; the very poorly-drained kettles had tamarack swamp, cattail-bulrush marshes, or sphagnum bogs.
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Broad till plains with thick and complex deposits of drift, paleobeach ridges, relict dunes, morainal hills, kames, drumlins, meltwater channels, and kettles occur.
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Ecoregion 54f is a hilly, hummocky to rolling area containing moraines, kames, eskers, and outwash plains.
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