A kame, also called a knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound made of sand, gravel and till that built up in a depression on a retreating glacier and was left on the land surface as the ice melted further. Kames are often found together with kettles, forming what is called kame and kettle, or knob and kettle, topography. The term was introduced into geology by Thomas Jamieson in 1874.
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