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drumlin::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | drift |
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Drumlins are often in drumlin fields of similarly shaped, sized and oriented hills.
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Halifax was founded below a glacial drumlin that would later be named Citadel Hill.
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Drumlin is an established technical word in geology, but drum is almost never used.
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The county is characterised by drumlin countryside dotted with many lakes and hills.
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Drumlins and drumlin clusters are glacial landforms which have been extensively studied.
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The drumlin discovery on Iceland has presented unique opportunities to study their structure.
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Drumlins are found in groups called drumlin fields or drumlin camps.
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A drumlin field can be seen just north of Conesus and Hemlock Lakes.
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A drumlin field forms after a glacier has modified the landscape.
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- A mound of glacial drift
- A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnu00EDn ("littlest ridge"), first recorded in 1833, and in the classical sense is an elongated hill in the shape of an inverted spoon or half-buried egg formed by glacial ice acting on underlying unconsolidated till or ground moraine.
- (drumlins) Depositional features associated with continental ice sheets. They are smooth elongate hills which typically occur in parallel clusters. They can range in height from about 50 feet up to about 160 feet in height. ...
- Drumlins are shaped sort of like sheepbacks, except they're larger and face the opposite direction. Geologists aren't totally sure how they form. They may be similar to the ripples found in sand on the beach as water flows over it. ...
- A streamlined hill or mound formed by a moving glacier, with the "tail" in the direction of ice-flow.
- Drumlins are elongated ridges of glacial sediment sculpted by ice moving over the bed of a glacier. Generally, the down-glacier end of a drumlin is oval or rounded and the up-glacier end tapers. The shape is often compared to an inverted, blunt-ended canoe. Source: Bruce Molnia
- [Gaelic "ridge"] A hill formed from glacial debris.
- A low, smoothly rounded, elongated and oval hill, mound or ridge of compact glacial till or rock. (Source: Glossary of Geology, First Edition. Gary, M., McAfee, R., Jr. and Wolf, C. Editors. American Geological Institute, 1974)
- An oval or elongated hill of glacial drift. The long axis of the hill shows the direction of glacial movement. The blunt end of the drumlin points "upstream" (toward the origination of glacial movement), and the more tapered end of the drumlin points "downstream. ...
