Sorted deposits which have been dropped by meltwater streams issuing from an ice front. The material deposited is coarse near the ice front, becoming progressively finer with distance from it. Outwash fabric tends to be well bedded, and current bedding is common; see sandur. The finest elements of the outwash may be deposited in proglacial lakes to form varves. A series of streams may produce several alluvial fans which coalesce to form an outwash plain (valley train).