Meltwater Definition

Meltwater Sentence Examples

• Esker A ridge of sediment (often winding) made up of sand and gravel deposited by glacial meltwater.

• They show that sediment was carried by meltwater derived from an ice front situated on high ground to the south.

• When surface meltwater refreezes internally, it releases huge amounts of latent heat thus softening the ice column.

• The Gap is a ravine carved by glacial meltwater.

• The most likely potential source for such an anomaly is meltwater from the antarctic ice sheet in a global warming scenario.