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drum·lin

(drŭm′lĭn)

An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.

[From drum, ridge, from Irish Gaelic druim, back, ridge, from Old Irish.]

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drumlin

(ˈdrʌmlɪn)

(Physical Geography) a streamlined mound of glacial drift, rounded or elongated in the direction of the original flow of ice

[C19: from Irish Gaelic druim ridge + -lin -ling¹]

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drum•lin

(ˈdrʌm lɪn)

n.

a long, narrow or oval, smoothly rounded hill of unstratified glacial drift.

[1825–35; drum² + -lin, variant of -ling¹]

drum·lin

(drŭm′lĭn)

An extended, oval hill or ridge formed and shaped by a glacier. Drumlins are longer than they are wide and have one steep and one gentle slope along their longest axis.

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drumlin

A half-egg-shaped hill of glacial deposits, formed under moving glacial ice.

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drumlin - a mound of glacial drift

drift - a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents

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drumlin

[ˈdrʌmlɪn] n → collina morenica

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Almost a score of years ago I published a travel book about rural New York (Country Towns of New York) in which I wrote up Palmyra, the Mormon mecca, in whose environs Joseph Smith claimed to have received a visit in 1823 from an angel named Moroni, who directed him to the west side of a glacial drumlin that the Mormons would call Cumorah.

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As Late Glacial deposits are widespread in the inter-drumlin hollows of the Saadjarv Drumlin Field (Pirrus & Rouk 1979), but deglaciation timing is poorly constrained due to the absence of radiocarbon dates, Lake Prossa, where the thickness of Late Glacial deposits varies between 2 and 3 m (Saarse & Karson 1982), was selected for future study.

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