GLACIAL LANDFORMS
type: Concept

OUTWASH FANS/PLAINS
type: Concept
change note: 2013-04-01 10:35:16.0 [tbs1979] insert Definition (id: null text: An outwash fan is 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. language code: en);
change note: 2013-03-05 08:45:30.0 [tbs1979] Insert Concept add broader relation (OUTWASH FANS/PLAINS [a8bfc8ad-42f2-43cc-b161-20058037bb95,82773] - GLACIAL LANDFORMS [3c78951a-0293-4fb0-baff-ec7372fe784d,64133]);
definition: An outwash fan is 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.
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