Outwash deposits

outwash, deposit of sand and gravel carried by running water from the melting ice of a glacier an...

The sediments deposited by glacial meltwater are called outwash. Since they have been transported...

... (outwash plains) or beneath (eskers) that glacier ice. They are composed of glacial sediments...

Outwash plains made up of outwash deposits are characteristically flat and consist of layers of s...

In general, the outwash deposits (Pearl Formation) occur in drainageways, such as the Kaskaskia R...