[keym] 
| a ridge or mound of stratified drift left by a retreating ice sheet. |
| kame (kām) n. A short ridge or mound of sand and gravel deposited during the melting of glacial ice. [Dialectal, a low ridge, from Middle English camb, comb, comb, from Old English; see gembh- in Indo-European roots.] |
| kame (kām) Pronunciation Key
A small hill or ridge consisting of layers of sand and gravel deposited by a meltwater stream at the margin of a melting glacier. |
kame
moundlike hill of poorly sorted drift, mostly sand and gravel, deposited at or near the terminus of a glacier. A kame may be produced either as a delta of a meltwater stream or as an accumulation of debris let down onto the ground surface by the melting glacier. A group of closely associated kames is called a kame field, or kame complex, and may be interspersed with kettles or kettle lakes. A kame terrace is produced when a meltwater stream deposits its sediments between the ice mass and the valley wall. In small areas, kames may form the terminal moraine.
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