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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 meltwater outwash at the...
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    The Kankakee Outwash Plain is a flat plain interspersed with sand dunes in the Kankakee River valley in northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois...
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  • retreats. Fluvio-glacial landforms and erosional surfaces include: outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial...
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    till (Mades, 1987). The Kankakee Outwash Plain (southern Lake, Porter, and LaPorte counties) is a flat outwash plain formed by the melting glacier, which...
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    glaciers under the force of gravity: Outwash plain (also known as sandur; plural sandar), a glacial out-wash plain formed of sediments deposited by melt-water...
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    kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are...
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  • sharply pointed mountainous peak Outwash fan – Type of sediment deposition by a melting glacier Outwash plain – Plain formed from glacier sediment transported...
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    the glacial landforms of moraines, drumlins, eskers, kames, outwash plains and till plains, all relics from recent glaciation. In the multitude of glacier-formed...
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    Mýrdalssandur (category Outwash plains)
    Mýrdalssandur (Icelandic: [ˈmirˌtalsˌsantʏr̥]) is an outwash plain on the south coast of Iceland. The outwash plain is located between the rivers of Kúðafljót in...
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    sea caused by jökulhlaups is called Skeiðarársandur and is a typical outwash plain known locally as a sandur [ˈsantʏr̥]. The last large jökulhlaup occurred...
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