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outwash plain
noun
- Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of outwash plain1
Example Sentences
Morgan were busy in New York planning a 200-mile railroad to the mine from the Gulf of Alaska, Barrett staked a homestead across the glacier鈥檚 flat outwash plain.
He points out how this 鈥渢erminal moraine鈥 versus 鈥渙utwash plain鈥 dichotomy roughly aligns with the path of gentrification, whereby the flatlands remain the province of 鈥渋mmigrant strivers and working-class stiffs.鈥
If a quest for authenticity is the motor of gentrification, why on earth is Campanella encouraging his readers to follow him into the outwash plain?
This stream was once part of an outwash plain at the head of a fjord in the Transantarctic Mountains.
In Brooklyn, New York, the terminal moraine glacial morphology of Long Island became the framework for the entire conception of Prospect Park as a sequence of landscape experiences, from the high ground of the main entrance down to the glacial outwash plain, in which a large lake was excavated.
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