Alternate Definitions for outwash fan

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Term: outwash fan
Definition:

A fan-shaped body of sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier. Sediment locked within the ice of the glacier gets transported by the streams of meltwater and deposits on the outwash plain at the terminus of the glacier.

Created 2023.04.16
Last Modified 2023.04.16
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