transfluencen.
/ˈtrɑːnsfluːəns//ˈtransfluːəns/ Geomorphology.
The flow of glacial ice in quantity across a preglacial watershed with consequent severe erosion.
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transfluence1949
1949 Sc. Geogr. Mag. 65 123 The ice-flow thus set up across the divides is termed diffluence or transfluence.
1955 Sci. News 38 55 At the present time transfluence is occurring at the edge of the Greenland ice-cap.
1970 R. 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.
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