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Sign in to savethumb|Drumlins around Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin, in an area with one of the highest concentration of drumlins in the world. The curved path of the [[Laurentide Ice Sheet is evident in the orientation of the various mounds.|380px]] thumb|Elongate and Magellanic subpolar forests|forested drumlins south of [[Puerto Williams, Chile. Flow direction here was at time of formation from west to east (left to right on picture).]]
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- Subclass of
- moraine
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- Glacial Drumlin State Trail.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Morphology
- Occurrence
- Composition
- Formation
- Soil development on drumlins
- Examples of drumlins
- Africa
- Europe
- North America
- Asia
- South America
- Antarctica
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Drumlins around Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin, in an area with one of the highest concentration of drumlins in the world. The curved path of the [[Laurentide Ice Sheet is evident in the orientation of the various mounds.|380px]] thumb|Elongate and Magellanic subpolar forests|forested drumlins south of [[Puerto Williams, Chile. Flow direction here was at time of formation from west to east (left to right on picture).]]
A drumlin, from the Irish word ("little ridge"), first recorded in 1833, 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. Assemblages of drumlins are referred to as fields or swarms; they can create a landscape which is often described as having a 'basket of eggs topography'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “drumlin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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