English Dictionary

roche moutonnée

/ɹɒʃ muːˈtɒneɪ/

noun

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

The roche moutonnée is a glacial landform characterized by a smooth, rounded side and a steep, jagged side.

意味（1）

(geography, glaciology) 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.