Usually means: Deposits formed by glacial meltwater.
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  1. fluvioglacial: Merriam-Webster
  2. fluvioglacial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fluvioglacial: Wordnik
  4. fluvioglacial: Wiktionary

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  1. fluvioglacial: Canadian Soil Information System
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Definitions from Wiktionary (fluvioglacial)

▸ adjective:  (geology) Describing a stream formed from glacial meltwater

Similar:
glacifluvial, fluviated, glaciofluvial, fluvic, fluviological, fluviatic, fluviatile, fluviographic, fluviometric, glaciolacustrine, more...

Opposite:
non-fluvial, arid, desert, dry.

Types:
outwash plain, kame, kame moraine, esker, ridge, valley train, more...

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Similar:
glacifluvial, fluviated, glaciofluvial, fluvic, fluviological, fluviatic, fluviatile, fluviographic, fluviometric, glaciolacustrine, more...

Opposite:
non-fluvial, arid, desert, dry.

Types:
outwash plain, kame, kame moraine, esker, ridge, valley train, more...



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