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outwash
[ out-wosh, -wawsh ]
noun
, Geology.
- the material, chiefly sand or gravel, deposited by meltwater streams in front of a glacier.
outwash
/ ˈaʊtˌwɒʃ /
noun
- a mass of gravel, sand, etc, carried and deposited by the water derived from melting glaciers
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Outwash plains are sometimes pitted by bowl-shaped basins where ice blocks were left buried in the sand by the retreating glacier.
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This outwash plain was a veritable paradise of bloom in the days before the advent of the plow.
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Thus arose the type of stratified drift variously known as overwash plains, outwash plains, morainic plains, and morainic aprons.
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Good examples of overwash or outwash plains may be seen at various points in the vicinity of Baraboo.
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A good example of an outwash plain occurs southwest of Baraboo, flanking the moraine on the west (Fig. 41).
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