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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.

Origin:
1890–95; out- + wash

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process where the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves

tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other

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outwash (ˈaʊtˌwɒʃ)

—n
	a mass of gravel, sand, etc, carried and deposited by the water derived from melting glaciers

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