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roches moutonnées

roches moutonnées is the plural of roche moutonnée.

Meaning of roche moutonnée

Noun

roche moutonnée (plural roches moutonnées)

  1. A rock formation created by glacial erosion.
    • 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.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 100

Questions about roches moutonnées

What is roches moutonnées the plural of?
Roches moutonnées is the plural of roche moutonnée.

Words near roches moutonnées in the dictionary

  1. rocher
  2. Rocherlea
  3. rochers
  4. roches
  5. Roches Beach
  6. roches moutonnées
  7. Rochester
  8. Rochester Hills
  9. Rochesterian
  10. Rochesterians
  11. rochet

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