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Meltwater channel

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221: 48:. The channel may form on the surface of, within, beneath, along the margins of or downstream from the ice mass. Accordingly it would be referred to as supraglacial, englacial, subglacial, lateral (or ice-marginal) or proglacial. 168: 169:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/39BCA503939401F57BB79A5B0044528D/S0022143000213282a.pdf/rothlisberger_channel_theory_its_origins_and_consequences.pdf
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is a related term descriptive of subglacial channels. Some examples of tunnel valleys in northwest England have also been described as
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formed during various of the Pleistocene glaciations which gave rise to the substantial Scandinavian ice sheet. A
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creating spillways along the southern margins of the Laurentide icesheet in North America are documented.
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is a term sometimes used for a channel carved by water overflowing from, for example, a
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R K Gresswell, 1964 Origins of the Dee and Mersey Estuaries
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may often be found in association with meltwater channels.
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Röthlisberger channel theory: its origins and consequences
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https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/6237.pdf
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are described in glaciological literature including
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channel
ice
bedrock
unconsolidated deposits
glacier
ice-sheet
subglacial channel
Nye or N-channels
Röthlisberger or R-channels
Hooke or H-channels
Tunnel valley
iceways
kames
eskers
urstromtal
Germany
Poland
spillway
proglacial lake
glacial lake outbursts
glaciation
Mars
Fluvioglacial landform
"Meltwater channel"
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/39BCA503939401F57BB79A5B0044528D/S0022143000213282a.pdf/rothlisberger_channel_theory_its_origins_and_consequences.pdf
"Catastrophic glacial-lake outburst spillways: Form and process relationships"
https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/6237.pdf
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