drumlins

Type(s): Concept

Definition
- Low, smoothly rounded, elongate oval hills, mounds or ridges of compact glacial till built under the margin of the ice and shaped by its flow, or carved out of an older moraine by readvancing ice. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]

Object id: 1623
Item identifier(s):
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