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What is a outwash plane?

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Is an outwash plain sorted or unsorted?

outwash is sorted because it is running water


How are outwash plains formed?

Outwash plains are formed by meltwater form glaciers.


A broad accumulation of stratified drift deposited adjacent to the downstream edge of an end moriane is?

outwash plain


What landform would be created by outwash?

It would create outwash plains, eskers, and kames.


Is sediment of different sized particles left by ice from glaciers called outwash?

Yes, it is called outwash.


What is the difference in till and outwash?

unlike till,outwash usually consists of particles that are all about the same sizes.


What is the sediment laid down by glacial meltwater called?

There are several names: outwash is one and moraines are another. The outwash forms a flat area sometimes called outwash planes and the moraines are hilly.


What is the difference between sediments in the outwash and sediments in the moraines?

Sediments that are in outwash are sorted sediments, organized by size, while sediments that are in moraine are unsorted.


What is a glacial outwash?

Glacial PlainA l outwash plain is a stratified deposit of sand and gravel transported by water from a melting glacial ice sheet.


How do you say outwash in spanish?

a cabo de lavado


Till and outwash are both deposits of sediments from what?

Glaciers


What are two typyes of glacial deposits?

Two types of glacial deposits are moraines, which are formations of mixed sediment pushed by and deposited from a glacier, and drumlins, which are elongated hills made of glacial till that form parallel to the direction of ice flow.