outwash
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of outwash
Example Sentences
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Morgan were busy in New York planning a 200-mile railroad to the mine from the Gulf of Alaska, Barrett staked a homestead across the glacier’s flat outwash plain.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2022
The main reason for this was something called outwash.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2022
The sediments that became moldavites represent a time when sea level was low, and sand, gravel and clay were being distributed in vast outwash fans where mountain streams emptied onto the plains.
From Scientific American • Aug. 9, 2019
Depending on its velocity, this water is able to move sediments of various sizes and most of that material is washed out of the lower end of the glacier and deposited as outwash sediments.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Thus arose the type of stratified drift variously known as overwash plains, outwash plains, morainic plains, and morainic aprons.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.
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