outwash in a sentence
Examples
- Point Roberts formed from the sand and gravel outwash of retreating glaciers 15, 000 years ago.
- Past and present proglacial rivers in front of large ice sheets deposited large outwash plains of sediment.
- If the ice had advanced outward and then retreated leaving behind an outwash, kettles may have formed.
- In dry weather, drivers become aware of a ford by crunching across outwash detritus on the roadway.
- For much of its length, Crooked Creek flows through Wisconsinan Till, Wisconsinan Outwash, and alluvium.
- Because few glacial outwash plains survive elsewhere, Martha's Vineyard's frost bottoms are extremely unusual.
- The melt water from the retreating ice-sheet formed outwash plains of gravel to the east and west.
- Hunter built his gristmill where the gradient of Constant Creek flattens into an area of poorly drained glacial outwash.
- Wisconsinan Outwash, which consists of stratified sand and gravel, also occurs in the creek's valley.
- The bulk of the land on Cape Cod consists of glacial landforms, formed by terminal moraine and outwash plains.