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KAME (a form of Scandinavian comb, hill)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAME (a form of Scandinavian comb, hill)  , in
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physical geography, a short ridge or bunched
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mound of gravel or sand, " tumultuously stratified," occurring in connexion with glacial deposits, having been formed at the mouths of tunnels under the ice . When the ice-
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sheet melts, these features, formerly concealed by the glacier, are revealed . They are
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common in the glaciated portions of the
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lower Scottish valleys . By some authorities the
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term " kame," or specifically "
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serpentine kame," is taken as synonymous with " 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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