Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to processes or deposits which involve the action of glacial streams or of streams heading glaciers.
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Examples
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Discontinuous deposits of Pre-Wisconsinan till and stratified glaciofluvial drift occur.
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Here, soils that developed over stratified glaciofluvial deposits are coarser-textured and deeper than soils in Ecoregion 67j.
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Stratified glaciofluvial drift typically occurs on outwash terraces and kames.
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Soils derived from Wisconsinan till in Ecoregion 67j are not as coarse nor as deep as the soils from stratified glaciofluvial deposits in Ecoregion 67a.
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Flatbrook Valley is underlain by sandstone, limestone, and other rocks, and is almost completely covered by glaciofluvial sediments dominated by gravels and partly indurated gravels.
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Sediment is deposited at the base of the glacier as till and at its terminal end as moraines or materials reworked by glaciofluvial processes.
Glacier 2008
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The Sand Area (54d) received vast amounts of medium textured glaciofluvial material from melting glaciers.
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Glaciation has shaped great valleys and filled them with glaciofluvial and morainal sediments.
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These glaciofluvial valleys were tributaries of water created when enough sunlight reached the glaciers to melt a thin layer on the surface.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Fassett plans to search for more glaciofluvial valleys as more images come from the CTX, which has mapped roughly 40 percent of the planet.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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