glaciofluvial drift

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• glaciofluvial deposit —    Material moved by glaciers and subsequently sorted and deposited by streams flowing from the melting ice. The deposits are stratified and may occur in the form of outwash plains, valley trains, deltas, kames, eskers, and kame terraces.… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

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