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Glaciolacustrine deposits

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or varvites. A varve represent an annual deposit of silt and clay. Sedimentation in deltas also occurs in rhythmic patterns as in the lake deposits, but they are thicker and contain coarse-grained materials instead of just silt and clay. As the varves get closer to the shoreline the clay layer will
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are carried into lakes and deposited. The bedload is deposited at the lake margin while the suspended load is deposited all over the lake bed. Glaciolacustrine deposits commonly form varves, which are annually deposited layers of silt and clay, where silt is deposited during the summer, and clay
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is used. These lakes include ice margin lakes or other types formed from glacial erosion or deposition. Sediments in the
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Easterbrook, D. J. (1999). Surface Process and Landforms 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall.
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stay relatively the same thickness, but there will be an increase in thickness of the silt layer.
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that form at the edges of lakes. These deposits will only be found near the edges of the lake.
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therefore carrying less coarse material. These sediments normally consist of fine-grained
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Sediments carried in the bedload of a stream, mostly sands and gravels, are deposited in
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Sediments that are carried in the suspended load of a stream, commonly
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Sediments deposited into lakes that come from glaciers
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Limnoglacial
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lakes
glaciers
bedload
suspended load
deltas
silts
clays
glacier
discharge
rhythmites
varves
Lacustrine plain
Glaciofluvial deposits
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