10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOUTONNEE»
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1
Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
MOUTONNEE. Roches moutonnees are asymmetric bedrock humps or hills with
one side ice-moulded and the other side steepened and often cliffed. They are
widespread features in formerly glaciated hard- rock terrain and often to he found
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2
Geography: An Integrated Approach
A roche moutonnee is a mass of more resistant rock. It has a smooth, rounded
upvalley or stoss slope facing the direction of ice flow, formed by abrasion, and a
steep, jagged, down- valley or lee slope resulting from plucking (Figures 4.23
and ...
3
Living Ice: Understanding Glaciers and Glaciation
A roche moutonnee is a prominent bedrock knob, rounded, smoothed, grooved,
striated, and locally polished by abrasion on one flank, and made steep, jagged,
cliffy, and irregular on the opposing flank by plucking (Plate VI). Each flank is ...
Robert Phillip Sharp, 1988
4
Rocky Mountain National Park: The Complete Hiking Guide
The name "roche moutonnee," French for "sheep-shaped rock" or "fleecy rock,"
was applied because the mounds resemble the rounded backs of sheep. The '
Grassy Knoll' is a small island of forest surrounded by the large meadow.
Moraine ...
5
Mountain Geomorphology - Integrating Earth Systems: ...
Hill 6642 roche moutonnee at mouth of upper South Yuba Canyon. View to south
from top of Cisco Butte. another roche moutonnee with an abraided stoss side (
foreground). Ice flow from left to right. Fig. 8. Erosional bench high on steep flank
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David R. Butler, Stephen Joseph Walsh, George Patrick Malanson, 2003
6
The pleistocene geology of the Leadville quadrangle, Colorado
ROCHE MOUTONNEE CREEK SYSTEM. Although most of the system of Roche
Moutonnee Creek, locally known as Cross Creek, lies beyond the limits of the
Leadville quadrangle, one of its cirques and part of its main valley are contained
in ...
Roche Moutonnee: Roche moutonnees are a good example of bedrock
landscape feature formed by abrasion and plucking combined. A roche
moutonnee is prominent bedrock knob, rounded, smoothed, grooved, striated
and locally polished ...
Rock fracturing, induced by the impact of ice-embedded stones, is probably also
important on the crest of a roche moutonnee. Large areas may be covered by
roches moutonnees; they provide one of the most useful criteria for determining
the ...
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Glacial and Fluvial Geomorphology of Western Himalaya: ...
The height of the huge, high lateral moraines above the valley floor near
Pahalgam and height and extent of striated rock surfaces above the roche
moutonnee surface near Shishnag lake reveal that the minimum ice thickness
responsible for ...
10
Concise Geography Upsc
FIGURE 1.46 Roche Moutonnee Direction of Ice Flow Roches Moutonnees I A
Roche Moutonnee Direction of Ice-Flow ▻ 'Roche Moutonnee' (a) Terminal
Moraine This is an accumulation of material which. (i) Moraines Moraines are the
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