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- An outwash plain, also called a sandur (plural: sandurs), sandr or sandar, is a plain formed of glaciofluvial deposits due to mel****er outwash at the...
- partially retreats. Fluvio-glacial landforms and erosional surfaces include: outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial...
- An outwash fan is a fan-shaped body of sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier. Sediment locked within the ice of the glacier gets...
- The Kankakee Outwash Plain is a flat plain inters****d with sand dunes in the Kankakee River valley in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois...
- as a kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles...
- the Big Bend of the Illinois River. Outwash from the glacier was carried beyond the Kankakee area. The co****r outwash, consisting of the co****r pieces...
- of till (Mades, 1987). The Kankakee Outwash Plain (southern Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties) is a flat outwash plain formed by the melting glacier...
- discussion below will focus on the Indiana portion of the basin. The Kankakee Outwash and Lacustrine Plain, a large and poorly drained plain, comprises approximately...
- Wisconsin. 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...
- contact with ice, glacially carved rock basins and depressions, morainic and outwash lakes, and glacial drift basins. Glacial lakes are the most numerous lakes...