- In geology, a
proglacial lake is a lake
formed either by the
damming action of a
moraine during the
retreat of a
melting glacier, a
glacial ice dam, or...
- A
proglacial river is a
river that
flows from the
margin of a glacier.
These rivers are
strongly affected by the highly-seasonal
water supply from the...
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outwash plains, kames, kame terraces,
kettle holes, eskers, varves, and
proglacial lakes. Mel****er
streams and
formed by glaciers,
especially in warmer...
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through the ice sheet,
which in the
Wisconsin period covered most of the
proglacial river valleys.
Numerous small,
isolated water bodies formed between the...
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formation of a
proglacial lake. This lake
forms as
glacial mel****er is
trapped behind larger deposits of till that form the dam.
These proglacial lakes were...
- as kame (stratified
sequence of sediments) deposits. Upon
entering a
proglacial lake at the end (terminus) of a glacier, the river/stream
deposit these...
- channels. Finally, the
water leaves the
glacier through proglacial streams or lakes.
Proglacial streams do not only act as the
terminus point but can also...
- in
Aoraki /
Mount Cook
National Park,
where it is the
outflow of the
proglacial Tasman Lake. It is also fed by the
glacial waters of the
tributary Murchison...
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Superior basin created small,
proglacial lakes. Later,
these lakes coalesced to form a
large proglacial lake
called proglacial Lake Duluth,
within the western...
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Rivers actually flow
northward toward Lake
Superior through the
eastern proglacial outlet. Even
though vast
amounts of
water flowed over the
southern rim...
