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KAME (a See also: physical geography, a See also: short See also: ridge or bunched See also: mound of See also: gravel or See also: sand, " tumultuously stratified," occurring in connexion with glacial deposits, having been formed at the mouths of tunnels under the ice
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When the ice-See also: sheet melts, these features, formerly concealed by the glacier, are revealed
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They are See also: common in the glaciated portions of the See also: lower Scottish valleys
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By some authorities the See also: term " kame," or specifically " See also: serpentine
kame," is taken as synonymous with " See also: esker," which however is preferably to be applied to the long mound deposited within the ice-tunnel, not to the bunched mound at its mouth
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