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Elongate and 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 droimnín ("little 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.

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• Related: Crag and tail, Glacial landforms, Landform, Lincoln Hills, Ribbed moraines, Roche moutonnée, Sediment

Diagrams of an idealized drumlin Diagrams of an idealized drumlin www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/physical/glaciers/drum.html - Web

Drumlin field, northwestern Manitoba Drumlin field, northwestern Manitoba gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/landscapes/details_e.php?photoID=445 - Web

Word of the day defines drumlin. Word of the day defines drumlin. wordsmith.org/words/drumlin.html - Web

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