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fluvioglacial

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fluvioglacial

Of a process or landform associated with glacial meltwater. Meltwater, flowing beneath or ahead of a glacier, is capable of transporting rocky material and creating a variety of landscape features, including eskers, kames, and outwash plains.


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2), and fluvioglacial materials that gave rise to silty, sandy, gravelly and stony soils throughout the area but particularly south of Skaha Lake and to the east of Osoyoos Lake.
Elsewhere, background till, fluvioglacial material as well as up-ice esker samples do not show any indicators.
Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglacial deposits.
 
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