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glacial landform > outwash fan

Preferred term

outwash fan  

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  • http://www.irandoc.ac.ir/onto/irandoc-meta/Concept

Broader concept

Definitions

  • A fan-shaped body of sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier. Sediment locked within the ice of the glacier gets transported by the streams of meltwater and deposits on the outwash plain at the terminus of the glacier.

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