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kame (kām), low, steep, rounded hill or ridge of layered sand and gravel drift, developed from glacial deposits. Kames were probably formed by streams of melting glacial ice that deposited mud and sand along the ice front. The subsequent retreat of the glacier left them as more or less isolated hills and ridges, ranging in height from a few feet to 100 ft (30 m) or more. Kames generally occur in clusters and are situated directly behind a mass of rock and soil called a terminal moraine moraine , a formation composed of unsorted and unbedded rock and soil debris called till, which was deposited by a glacier. The till that falls on the sides of a valley glacier from the bounding cliffs makes up lateral moraines, running parallel to the valley sides.
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. They are common in the glaciated valleys of the Scottish Lowlands, where the name originated.
kame [kām]
(geology)
A low, long, steep-sided mound of glacial drift, commonly stratified sand and gravel, deposited as an alluvial fan or delta at the terminal margin of a melting glacier.


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The work of one of the great Aboriginal artists of recent years, the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, was given a major retrospective at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan earlier this year.
Honors Kris Connor, Victoria Cormier, Melissa Cowan, Nicole Ellis, Christiane Germain, Maggie Hughes, Jesse Hunt, Lori Lamberto, Allison Lawrence, Courtney Lowe, Rebecca Matias, Shannen Mulryan, Derek Nolan, Kames Parda, Kristen Peterson, Leah Pusateri, Jessica Riopel and Brittany Zendzian.
Magnificently showcasing the effects of continental glaciation (in some places the flow of glacial ice was as much as two miles deep) created a variety of geologic features including kames, kettles, drumlins, ice-walled-lake plans, eskers, tunnel channels, basalt bluffs, dells, and rock-strewn terminal moraines.
 
 
 
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