Sediment deposited by streams flowing away from a melting glacier.
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Sand and gravel deposited by meltwater streams in front of glacial ice.
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(geology) The sediment (mostly sand and gravel) deposited by water flowing from a melting glacier.
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Outwash Sentence Examples
its front rested on Staten Island and Long Island, whose surface features, and a part of whose area, are due to the deposits along the ice front, including terminal moraines and outwash gravel plains.
The sands and gravels of the alluvial plain originated as glacial outwash from the melting glaciers inland.