roche moutonnée

English

A roche moutonnée in Murmansk, Russia

Etymology

From French roche moutonnée, from roche (“rock”) + moutonnée (“wavy”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɒʃ muːˈtɒneɪ/

Noun

roche moutonnée (plural roches moutonnées)

1. (geography, glaciology) A rock formation created by glacial erosion.

   Synonyms: moutonnée, sheepback

   • 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.

Translations

rock formation

• French: roche moutonnée f
• Polish: muton m, baraniec (pl) m
• Swedish: rundhäll c

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔʃ mu.tɔ.ne/

Noun

roche moutonnée f (plural roches moutonnées)

1. roche moutonnée, sheepback