Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the combined action of rivers and glaciers.
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- adjective geology Describing a
stream formed fromglacial meltwater
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Examples
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As one moves east toward the Atlantic coast, the surface becomes rougher, and surface deposits become thin and discontinuous, heavily influenced by fluvioglacial processes.
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The ecoregion is covered with undulating to ridged glaciolacustrine or fluvioglacial deposits with occasional hummocky bedrock ridges and knolls.
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Much of the region is underlain by Cretaceous shale, and covered by undulating to kettled, calcareous, glacial till with significant areas of level lacustrine and hummocky to ridged fluvioglacial deposits.
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The gently undulating or sloping lands associated with the Peace River are underlain by Tertiary sandstone and shale strata, covered mainly by imperfectly drained clayey lacustrine sediments with some fine-textured tills and sandy fluvioglacial deltas associated with the major river systems.
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Level III contains complex moraine and fluvioglacial deposits.
Thoughts on Alpine Glacier Stratigraphy « Climate Audit 2006
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- glacial und fluvioglacial alluvial deposits, moraines and sediments in the pleistocene, that is, recent glaciation of the Andes.
Chapter 17 1993
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