1) Canadian folk music group 2) Drift 3) Glacial landform
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A drumlin, from the Irish word droimnín (`littlest ridge`), first recorded in 1833, 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. ==Drumlin formation== Drumlins and drumlin clusters are glacial landforms, composed primarily of glacial t.....
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an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial action.
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long hill formed by glacial retreat
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• (n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
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oval or elongated hill believed to have been formed by the streamlined movement of glacial ice sheets across rock debris, or till. The name is ... [5 related articles]
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The flank of a drumlin composed of glacial till. The length of this drumlin is about 1/8 mile. Note the two people for scale. Cranes Beach, MA. Credit: USGS An elongated hillock, formed of till, found usually in swarms in lowland areas formerly occupied by a glacier. Drumlins usually taper away ...
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A glacial deposit; an elongate shaped hill. The longest dimension is parallel to the movement of the ice flow (see arrow).
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A long, spoon-shaped hill that develops when pressure from an overriding glacier reshapes a moraine. Drumlins range in height from 5 to 50 meters and in length from 400 to 2000 meters. They slope down in the direction of the ice flow.
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A low, smoothly rounded, elongate hill. Drumlins are deposits of compacted till that are sculpted be
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Drum'lin noun [ Gael.
druim the ridge of a hill.]
(Geol.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
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A smooth, glacially streamlined hill that is elongate in the direction of ice movement. Drumlins are generally composed of till.
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A hill shaped deposit of till. The shape of these features resembles an elongated teaspoon laying bowl down. The tapered end of the drumlin points to the direction of glacier advance. Drumlins come in assorted sizes. Lengths can range from 100 to 5,000 meters and heights can be as great as 200 meters.
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A drumlin is an irregular, rounded, hog-backed mound of boulder clay, often from a hundred to two hundred feet high and hundreds of yards long. They are abundant in most flat countries over which an ice sheet has passed.
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Elongated mound of glacial sediment deposited parallel to ice flow.
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(from droim, 'back' with a diminutive) A small rounded hill of glacial formation, often seen in series (OED).
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n. Elongated mound of glacial sediment deposited parallel to ice flow.
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n. Elongated mound of glacial sediment deposited parallel to ice flow.
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[
n] - a mound of glacial drift
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remnant elongated hills formed by historical glacial action; it is not clear exactly how they are formed and why they form only in some glaciated regions. Drumlin field. Manitoba, Canada.
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noun a mound of glacial drift
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Long streamlined hill created in formerly glaciated areas. Debris (till) is transported by the glacial icesheet and moulded to form an egg-shaped mound, 8–60 m/25–200 ft in height and 0.5–1 km/0.3–0.6 mi in length. Drumlins commonly occur in groups on the floor of glacial troughs, producing what is called a `bas...
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Streamlined hill, largely of till, with blunt end pointing into direction from which ice moved. Occur in clusters called drumlin fields.
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a long, narrow or oval, smoothly rounded hill of unstratified glacial drift.
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