Iceage Trail - Glossary

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Delta Deposit Drumlin End Moraine Esker Fluvial Glacier Glaciolacustrine Glaciomarine Holocene Ice Age Ice Contact Kettle Lacustrine Late Wisconsinan Late-Glacial Moraine Outwash Outwash Head Pleistocene Quaternary Striation Submarine Fan Till

Ice Contact: Refers to any sedimentary deposit or other feature that formed adjacent to glacial ice. Many such deposits show irregular topography and internal disturbance due to melting of the supporting ice against which they were laid down.