meltwater's Usage Examples:

carved out by glacial meltwaters It is species-rich as it has never been ploughed, and it is the largest surviving area of chalk downland surviving in the.

Iceland Much of Iceland is volcanically active, resulting in significant meltwater production beneath its two ice caps.

snout of the glacier (German: Gletscherzunge) recedes, which initially fills with meltwater, forming a proglacial lake, and later may be filled with.

GeologyGlaciers from the most recent ice ages did not reach south far enough to flatten the land in Brown County, though glacier meltwater helped deepen gullies in the region, and made hills steeper.

A moraine-dammed lake occurs when the terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley.

The glacial lake left behind a soft, varved landscape, gathering silt and sand in the summertime due to the influx of glacial meltwater and clay in the wintertime as the lake froze until it was later drained.

As the weather gets colder meltwater will often re-freeze.

The meltwater constantly rinses away the rock flour allowing the coarser fragments to abrade bedrock.

The Niagara Escarpment played a key role in forming the moraine in that it acted as a dam for glacial meltwater trapped between it and two ice lobes.

When the continental glacier's meltwaters found other outlets to the sea, River Warren was succeeded by the more modest Upper Mississippi, which drains a much smaller basin, and the St.

as ice during the colder seasons and release it later in the form of meltwater as warmer summer temperatures cause the glacier to melt, creating a water.

of meltwater, and deposits on the outwash plain, at the terminus of the glacier.

cinder flats and its crater is filled with meltwater during the summer.

Synonyms:

H2O, water,

Antonyms:

fresh water, saltwater, soft water,