An irregular mound or hill of sand and gravel deposited by meltwater in a crevasse, a hole, or against a decaying block of glacial ice, and left standing once the surrounding ice has melted away entirely. Kames are commonly found together with kettle lakes and eskers across formerly glaciated terrain, forming an irregular, hummocky landscape called kame and kettle topography.
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A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier.
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