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MATERIAUX TRANSPORT GLACIAIRE [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
DEF

... rock material (clay, silt, sand, gravel, boulders) transported and deposited by a glacier and deposited directly by or from the ice, or by running water emanating from a glacier.

OBS

Drift includes unstratified material (till) that forms moraines, and stratified deposits that form outwash plains, eskers, kames, varves, glaciofluvial sediments, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
DEF

Sédiment lié à l'action glaciaire qui peut être mis en place directement par la glace, ou par les eaux de fonte.

OBS

sédiment glaciaire; glacio-sédimentaire; matériau de transport glaciaire; apport glaciaire : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • sédiments glaciaires
  • matériaux de transport glaciaire
  • apports glaciaires
  • glacio-sédimentaires

Spanish

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