roche moutonnée

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɒʃ muːˈtɒneɪ/

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.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔʃ mu.tɔ.ne/

roche moutonnée f (plural roches moutonnées)

1. roche moutonnée, sheepback