11. Past and present proglacial rivers in front of large ice sheets deposited large outwash plains of sediment. 12. The melt water from the retreating ice-sheet formed outwash plains of gravel to the east and west. 13. From here the land descends south into the Kankakee Outwash Plain until the Kankakee River is reached. 14. The park is part of Minnesota's Pine Moraines and Outwash Plains Ecological Subsection and is contained within Becker counties. 15. The bulk of the land on Cape Cod consists of glacial landforms, formed by terminal moraine and outwash plains . 16. The topography of the region, such as hills and flat outwash plains , are a result of the Wisconsinan glaciation. 17. The land to the south of this moraine to the South Shore is the outwash plain of the last glacier. 18. In designing the watercourse Olmsted and Vaux also took advantage of the pre-existing glacier-formed kettle ponds and lowland outwash plains . 19. The most extensive barrens occur in large areas of sandy glacial deposits, including outwash plains , lakebeds, and outwash terraces along rivers. 20. "' Nostoc Flats "'( ) is a small, flat glacial outwash plain , the surface of which is covered by the algae Nostoc.
