A large mound of sediment deposited in depressions of a glacier and then deposited by the melting glacier along the front of a slowly melting or stationary glacier is called a(n)
A) glacial outwash.
B) kame.
C) outwash plain.
D) esker.
E) kettle lake.

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A kame is a large mound of sediment deposited in a depression of a glacier and then deposited along the front of a slowly melting or stationary glacier. Glacial outwash is material that is carried away from a glacier by meltwater and deposited downstream. Outwash plains are large, flat areas of sediment that have been deposited by meltwater streams flowing away from a glacier. Eskers are long, narrow ridges of sediment that form in tunnels beneath glaciers. Kettle lakes form when a block of ice is left behind as the glacier retreats and meltwater fills the depression it creates.

A Large Mound of Sediment Deposited in Depressions of a Glacier