Roche moutonnée
sheepback

In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier.

Roche moutonnée have a gentle slope on their up-glacier sides and a steep to vertical face on their down-glacier sides.

They originate in and run through regions which include clear evidence of glacial erosion through abrasion and may exhibit striations and roche moutonnée.

Roche moutonnée - a elongated post glacier rock shape with smoothed surface on the uphill side and a "plucked" surface on the downhill side.

Note that the side profile of a roche moutonnée (an erosional feature) is opposite to that of a drumlin (a depositional feature).

Mt Susitna is a roche moutonnée, a landform created when a glacier flows over a resistant, topographically high, bedrock body, creating a smooth-sided and teardrop shaped feature aligned with the direction of ice flow.

In glaciology, a roche moutonnée (or sheepback) is a rock formation created by the passing of a glacier.

Some rock formations in the path of a glacier are sculpted into small hills called roche moutonnée, or "sheepback" rock.

It was late in the gray fall afternoon when the procession of sheepback riders rode into Riv'n'dell, led by Garfinkel astride his magnificent woolly stallion, Anthrax.

Such evidence includes glacial erratics, glacial scouring, glacial striations, deranged drainage, highland swamps, and roches moutonnées, so called "sheepback mountains" because they often resemble the shape of a sheep in profile.