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outwash

n. (context geology English) The sediment (mostly sand and gravel) deposited by water flowing from a melting glacier

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Usage examples of "outwash".

A bahada had left its broad outwash like a detrital fan upon the sheltered floor of her domain.

Several miles wide, jumbled at the center with debris from thousands of flash floods, the canyon mouth was more like the lip of an outwash plain than a true canyon.

A hundred years before, when these acres had been pristine glacial outwash, the Carteret Gun Club had set up pigeon shoots, massacring a thousand birds at a shoot.