head-of-outwash

head-of-outwash
   A sloping and sometimes high relief landform composed predominantly of glaciofluvial sediment that delimits a former ice-margin of a relatively static, rapidly wasting glacier. A steep ice-contact slope forms the ice-proximal face of the landform; a more gently sloping surface dips away on the distal slope, if not slumped.
   Compare: ice-margin complex.
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Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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