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.
    Synonym: sheepback
    • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 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

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁɔʃ mu.tɔ.ne/

Noun

roche moutonnée f (plural roches moutonnées)

  1. roche moutonnée, sheepback
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