| KAMES Kames are stratified hills of cobble, gravel, sand, and silt. Streams flowing on the top of the glacier or in a tunnel within sort the glacial debris. If the stream fell into a moulin – hole in the ice or an "ice well" --- its waters swirled their load of rock waste into it, building up a conical deposit of sand and gravel. Where meltwaters, flowing over the surface of the glacier, plunged into a crevasse or crack in the glacier or fell over the ice front in a waterfall onto the accumulating moraine, conical deposits of debris were left resting on the edge of the ice. Kames are recognized by their "knob-like" structure and by their common occurrences in areas of interlobate moraines. This material has been compiled for educational use only,
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