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Uncommon card · Science
Esker, an Uncommon card
An esker, eskar, eschar, or os is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 49,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Esker quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Esker card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They are most often formed by the ______ of sediment at the bottom of ice-walled channels within or beneath a former glacier.
Answer
deposition. They are most often formed by the deposition of sediment at the bottom of ice-walled channels within or beneath a former glacier. From the Esker article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Siobhán Haughey. Siobhán Haughey 72 · Associative property 68 · Crystal system 63 · Esker 60 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are most often formed by the deposition of sediment at the bottom of ice-walled channels within or beneath a former glacier.
- As a glacier retreats, the channel walls melt while the accumulated sediment remains, slumping into ridges as the only remaining evidence of the former channel path.
- They represent an unusual form of sedimentation where the location of the former channel is higher than the surrounding landform.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Esker article was read about 49,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Esker
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Esker in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Pablo PrigioniUncommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 49
- Svetlana SavitskayaUncommon · History · ATK 65 DEF 51
- Zoe CaldwellUncommon · Arts · ATK 67 DEF 49
- Najmul Hossain ShantoUncommon · Society · ATK 69 DEF 47
- Oil drop experimentUncommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 49
- Siobhán HaugheyUncommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 44
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Esker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hanna Lokrantz, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
