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transfluence Geomorphol.|ˈtrɑːnsfluːəns, ˈtræns-|
[ad. G. transfluenz (A. Penck Die Alpen im Eiszeitalter (1909) III. 804), f. L. -fluentia flow: see trans-.]
The flow of glacial ice in quantity across a preglacial watershed with consequent severe erosion.
1949Scottish Geogr. Mag. LXV. 123 The ice-flow thus set up across the divides is termed diffluence or transfluence. 1955Sci. News XXXVIII. 55 At the present time transfluence is occurring at the edge of the Greenland ice-cap. 1970R. J. Small Study of Landforms xi. 374 Glacial transfluence is found where the impeded ice cuts out of a valley system not by a lateral distributary but at the very head of the valley. |