This outwash plain was a veritable paradise of bloom in the days before the advent of the plow.
From the highway east of Skillet Creek one has a view of the terminal moraine to the east and of the highly productive outwash plain.
Outwash plains are sometimes pitted by bowl-shaped basins where ice blocks were left buried in the sand by the retreating glacier.
Outwash plains are plains of sand and gravel which frequently border terminal moraines on their outward face, and were spread evidently by outwash from the melting ice.
Great outwash plains of sand and gravel lie in front of the moraine belts, and long valley trains of coarse gravels tell of the swift and powerful rivers of the time.
First we have the hypothesis of periodic retreat, so generally applied to terminal moraines and associatedoutwash in glaciated mountain valleys.
Where glacial outwash is concentrated within a long and narrow reëntrant, separating glacial lobes, strips of high plain are sometimes built up which overtop the other glacial deposits of the district.
Such plains of glacier outwash are described asoutwash plains or outwash aprons.
Moraine with outwash apron in front, the latter in part eroded by a river.
By the Chicago and Northwestern Railway the area of recessional moraines and intermediate outwash plains, and later that of the drumlins, are crossed in journeying to Madison, Wisconsin.
Drumlins in solid black, moraines with diagonal hachure, outwash plains and the till plain or ground moraine in white (after Alden).
Diagrams to show the manner of formation and the structure of an outwash plain, and the position of the fosse between this and the moraine.
Pit lakes are thus easily recognized by their occurrence usually in groups within a plain of glacial outwash and by their characteristic banks inclined at the angle of repose of such materials (Fig.
The outwashplain is built up to the crest of the moraine.
Traced northward, the edge of the outwash plain, as it abuts against the moraine, becomes higher, and in Section 4, Township 11 N.
In Sauk Prairie, however, its characteristics are those of an outwash plain, rather than those of a valley train.
A good example of an outwash plain occurs southwest of Baraboo, flanking the moraine on the west (Fig.
Good examples of overwash or outwash plains may be seen at various points in the vicinity of Baraboo.
Thus arose the type of stratified drift variously known as overwash plains, outwash plains, morainic plains, and morainic aprons.
Locally, the outwash plains of this region have been much dissected by erosion since their deposition, and are now affected by many small valleys.
The morainic or outwash plain bordering the terminal moraine.
From this point north to the Baraboo river the moraine scarcely rises above the edge of the outwash beyond.
Outwash plains are plains of sand and gravel which frequently border terminal moraines on their outward face, and were spread evidently by outwash from the melting ice.
Outwash Plain, the Delta of the Yahtse River, Alaska] Piedmont Glaciers =The Malaspina glacier.
Outwash of the Second Glaciation--Mindel--Deposits on the second erosion level.
Outwash of the Third Glaciation--Riss--Deposits on the third erosion level.
Outwash of the First Glaciation--Guenz--Deposits on the first erosion level.
Outwash of the Fourth Glaciation--Wuerm--Deposits on the fourth erosion level.
Where the margin lay upon the lands numerous streams issued from beneath the ice, milk-white with rock flour, and built up great outwashplains and valley trains of gravel and sand.
Differences in the periods would apparently be manifested less in the extent of the ice than in the depth of glacial erosion and in the thickness of the terminal moraines, outwash plains, and other glacial or glacio-fluvial formations.
Rainier, along the glacial outwash train of Nisqualli Glacier, to the moraine and outwash apron of the Vashon Glacier and thence to the Olympics.
It was caught in a mouse trap on an alluvial outwash at the mouth of a canyon in a willow community in which some willows were as high as nine feet.
Moraines, outwash plains, and lakes are easily recognizable features that originated during the latest glacial stages, and most of the peaks and canyons were greatly modified.
Outwash plains are the deposits formed by streams which, during the Ice Age, issued from the glaciers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outwash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
