Kames

When it began to melt and retreat, it was the chief agent in building up our river terraces, and our long, low, rounded hills of sand and gravel and clay, called kames and drumlins. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

I could show you everywhere the green banks and knolls of earth, which Scotch people call "kames" and "tomans" -- perhaps brought down by ancient glaciers, or dropped by ancient icebergs -- now so smooth and green through summer and through winter, among the wild heath and the rough peat-moss, that the old Scots fancied, and I dare say Scotch children fancy still, fairies dwelt inside. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

•Stratified drift, in the form of outwash plains, deltas, kames, and moraines, fills main stream valleys. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In areas that are immediately south of the Wisconsinan limit, outwash terraces and kames may occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stratified glaciofluvial drift typically occurs on outwash terraces and kames. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Broad till plains with thick and complex deposits of drift, paleobeach ridges, relict dunes, morainal hills, kames, drumlins, meltwater channels, and kettles occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Elkhart Till Plains ecoregion is punctuated by end moraines, kames, and lacustrine flats; kettlehole lakes occur but are much rarer than in Ecoregion 56a while sand dunes are less common than in Ecoregions 54d or 56d. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The well-drained end moraines and kames once supported oak-hickory forests whereas wetter areas had beech forests or northern swamp forests; the very poorly-drained kettles had tamarack swamp, cattail-bulrush marshes, or sphagnum bogs. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Summit Interlobate Area is set apart from adjacent ecoregions by its numerous lakes, wetlands, sphagnum bogs, sluggish streams, kames, and kettles. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In places, beach ridges, hummocky stagnation moraines, kettles, and kames can be found. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Terminal moraines, kettles, kames, and poorly drained depressions are present locally. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ecoregion 54f is a hilly, hummocky to rolling area containing moraines, kames, eskers, and outwash plains. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In brighter news, Cassavant Elementary School students went to visit the the Nature Conservancy's O.D. Von Engeln Preserve, wandering among the eskers, kames and kettles while Dryden High Seniors greeted them as fairytale characters. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Few traces of drumlins, kames, or terminal moraines are found upon the Kansan drift, and where thick enough to mask the preexisting surface, it seems to have been spread originally in level plains of till. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

England: "Mazers, noqqins, whiskins, piggins, cringes, ale-bowls, wassel bowls, tankard and kames from a pottle to a pint and from a pint to a gill." ❋ Unknown (1900)

These kames and sand plains, because of the silicious nature of their materials and the very porous nature of the soil which they afford, are commonly sterile, or at most render a profit to the tiller by dint of exceeding care. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)

We can sometimes trace their course by the excavation which they have made, but more commonly by the long ridges of stratified sand and gravel which were packed into the caverns excavated by these subglacial rivers, which are known to glacialists as _eskers_, or as serpent kames. ❋ Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1873)

[Originally FAP 420 right of-way ran through the McHenry County Conservation District, but the legislative delegation convinced IDOT to move it away from the kames.] ❋ Cal Skinner (2010)