outwash

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The most prominent feature in this map is the Laurentian Channel, which is now a drowned glacial outwash river valley.

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  1. noun Sediment deposited by streams flowing away from a melting glacier.

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  • The land encompassing the Edgewood-Oak Brush Plains Preserve is a shrub savanna community growing on sandy soils and outwash plains. —  OntheWilderSide
  • The most prominent feature in this map is the Laurentian Channel, which is now a drowned glacial outwash river valley. —  Clastic Detritus
  • It was at the top of this HUGE glacial outwash below a GIGANTIC lateral moraine —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • This and the current economy is the outwash of trickle-down economics. they should tax the crap out of these companies that move to mexico, or china.
  • The Call filled it, drained through it, wrapped it, overcame it; so that it sank away at last like the outwash of an exhausted tide: the weft of battle stayed unfinished in the loom Then from the Indian lodges came the women and children. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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  1. = Dutch uitwasschen = Middle Low German ūtwaschen = German auswaschen = Swedish utvaska = Danish udvaske; as out + wash.
 

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/ˈaʊtwæʃ/
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