sediment deposited by meltwater streams emanating from a glacier.
Stratified sediment washed out from a glacier by meltwater streams and deposited in front of the end moraine.
Soil material washed down a hillside by glacial meltwater and deposited upon more gently sloping land.
composed of materials sorted and deposited by glacial meltwaters. The resulting topography can be a level plain ("uncollapsed") or very hilly ("collapsed" or "pitted"). Pitted outwash may contain numerous lakes, which originated when blocks of ice stranded by a receding glacier were buried within outwash deposits. As the ice melted, depressions were created that filled with water. This is the most extensive landform found on the NH-AL SF.
Glaciofluvial sediments deposited by meltwater streams at the edge of a glacier.
the sediments (usually gravel, sand, and silt) deposited by the melt water streaming from a melting glacier.
Sediment transported by meltwater from a glacier and deposited in front of (down slope from) the terminus of the melting glacier.
Sediments "washed out" beyond a glacier by flowing water and laid down in thin beds or strata; the particle size may range from boulders to silt.
Stratified detritus (chiefly sand and gravel) removed or washed out from a glacier by melt-water streams and deposited in front or beyond the end moraine or the margin of an active glacier.
Stratified glacially derived sediment (clay, silt, sand, gravel) deposited by meltwater streams in channels, deltas, outwash plains, on flood plains, and in glacial lakes.
Meltwater-deposited sediment, dominantly sand and gravel, showing increasing rounding and sorting into layers with increasing distance from the ice margin. Often silt-rich, which can be reworked by wind to form loess.
Rocky and sandy surface material deposited by meltwater that flowed from a glacier.
Stratified sand and gravel that was washed out from a glacier by melt water streams and deposited in front of, or beyond the margin of, an active glacier .
alluvial sand and gravel deposited by rivers draining glaciers during the last Ice Age; widespread on terraces and floodplains in the South Island.
Deposits of rocks, boulders, gravel and sand (called glacial drift) left behind by flowing water from glaciers as they melted.
Glacial outwash is the deposit of sand, silt, and gravel formed below a glacier by meltwater streams and rivers. An outwash plain is an extensive, relatively flat area of such deposits.
Sediments released during melting along the margins of a glacier or ice sheet and deposited by meltwater streams (glacial-fluvial sediment)
glacial debris re-eroded and re-deposited by meltwater streams. Outwash forms a "valley train".
Sediment deposited by meltwater out in front of an ice margin. Usually composed of sand and(or) gravel.
sand and gravel transported away from a glacier by meltwater streams.
Debris transported from a restricted channel to an unrestricted area where it is deposited to form an alluvial or debris cone or fan.
Glacially deposited soil parent material worked and graded by water action from the melting glacial ice.
Drift carried away from the retreating glacier by meltwater. As the speed of the water slows, materials drop out in relation to their size. This creates a natural sorting of the material by size with the largest pieces closest to the face of the ice and the smallest at the greatest distance.