outwash plain

noun

1. Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.

Word History and Origins

Origin of outwash plain¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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’s flat outwash plain.

From Seattle Times

He points out how this “terminal moraine” versus “outwash plain” dichotomy roughly aligns with the path of gentrification, whereby the flatlands remain the province of “immigrant strivers and working-class stiffs.”

From New York Times

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?

From New York Times

This stream was once part of an outwash plain at the head of a fjord in the Transantarctic Mountains.

From BBC

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.

From Nature