An outwash plain, also called a sandur (plural: sandurs), sandr or sandar, is a plain formed of glaciofluvial deposits due to meltwater outwash at the...

The Kankakee Outwash Plain is a flat plain interspersed with sand dunes in the Kankakee River valley in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois...

retreats. Fluvio-glacial landforms and erosional surfaces include: outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial...

till (Mades, 1987). The Kankakee Outwash Plain (southern Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties) is a flat outwash plain formed by the melting glacier, which...

glaciers under the force of gravity: Outwash plain (also known as sandur; plural sandar), a glacial out-wash plain formed of sediments deposited by melt-water...

sharply pointed mountainous peak Outwash fan – Type of sediment deposition by a melting glacier Outwash plain – Plain formed from glacier sediment transported...

the glacial landforms of moraines, drumlins, eskers, kames, outwash plains and till plains, all relics from recent glaciation. In the multitude of glacier-formed...

kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are...

Mýrdalssandur (Icelandic: [ˈmirˌtalsˌsantʏr̥]) is an outwash plain on the south coast of Iceland. The outwash plain is located between the rivers of Kúðafljót in...

Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle...

boulders melt, they begin to pool to form kettle lakes in the glacial outwash plain. The terminal moraine is the furthest point of disturbed sediment, which...

cirques that characterize the Whiteface Mountain. Outwash plains: St. Regis Canoe Area is an outwash plain pitted with kettle holes. Soils in the area are...

(Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsceiːðarˌauːrˌsantʏr̥]) is an Icelandic glacial outwash plain, a vast expanse of sand generated by the transport of debris by the...

hilly, and its beaches are more rocky than those on the flat, sandy outwash plain of the South Shore along the Atlantic Ocean. Large boulders known as...

the streams of meltwater, and deposits on the outwash plain, at the terminus of the glacier. The outwash, the sediment transported and deposited by the...

unique regional ecosystem. Much of the area is the Grayling outwash plain, a broad outwash plain including sandy ice-disintegration ridges, jack pine barrens...

strip between Skógar and the west edge of the Mýrdalssandur glacial outwash plain. In 1991, the US journal Islands Magazine counted the beach at Vík as...

regional ecosystem. A large portion of the area is the Grayling outwash plain, a broad outwash plain including sandy ice-disintegration ridges, jack pine barrens...

structures linked with large-scale sediment deposition. Alluvial fan Outwash plain Fan (surname) (Chinese character: 范, pinyin: Fàn), a common Chinese...

They deposited reddish sands and gravels westward and southward in outwash plains. With the retreat of the Patrician ice, the stage was set for the final...

large outwash plain called Breiðamerkursandur. It has a breadth of around 25 km and serves as bird habitat in the summer month. This outwash plain is constantly...

be confused with outwash plains, till plains differ due to their sorting mechanisms and resulting deposit characteristics. Till plains are deposited as...

melted at a stationary front. The southern part of the island is an outwash plain, sloping away from the arc of the moraine and shaped at its margins...

Barrow-in-Furness. The extensive sandflats are the remains of a vast sandur or outwash plain established by meltwaters as the last ice age waned. Sea-level was still...

to the South Shore is the outwash plain of the last glacier. One part of the outwash plain was known as the Hempstead Plains, and this land contained one...

The Munich gravel plain (German: Münchner Schotterebene) is an outwash plain in Upper Bavaria, Germany, formed during Late Pleistocene glacial periods...

the product of the Taconic orogeny—- and the sandy, relatively flat outwash plain of the upper continental shelf, formed of unconsolidated Cretaceous...

occur in large areas of sandy glacial deposits (including outwash plains), lakebeds, and outwash terraces along rivers. The most common trees are the jack...

State Natural Area, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and the Kankakee Outwash Plain in Illinois; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in northwest Indiana;...

coastlines. outwash Rocky and sandy surface material deposited by melted water that flows from a glacier. outwash plain A smooth, flat plain of sandy or...