roche moutonnée
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Etymology edit
From French roche moutonnée, from roche (“rock”) + moutonnée (“wavy”).
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Noun edit
roche moutonnée (plural roches moutonnées)
- (geography, glaciology) A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 100:
- Some are obviously roches moutonnées, polished and shaped by the ice-sheet that covered this whole landscape during the last million years of the Pleistocene ice age – a geological yesterday compared with the formation of the Alpine chain itself.
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rock formation
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roche moutonnée f (plural roches moutonnées)