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What is Jones Esker?
Jones Esker is an elongated glacial ridge in Canada. Researchers regard it as a significant landform for understanding past subglacial drainage.
How did Jones Esker form?
An esker forms when sediment is deposited by meltwater flowing through a tunnel beneath or within glacial ice. The resulting ridge can preserve evidence of how the former ice sheet drained.
Why is Jones Esker important to geomorphologists?
Its shape and sediment record help researchers reconstruct meltwater pathways beneath an earlier glacier. That makes it useful evidence of past ice-sheet behavior.
Is Jones Esker a mountain range?
No. It is a narrow, elongated glacial ridge, not a tectonic mountain range. Its form was created by glacial meltwater and sediment deposition.
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