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drumlin

(drŭm`lĭn), smooth oval hill of glacial driftdrift,
deposit of mixed clay, gravel, sand, and boulders transported and laid down by glaciers. Stratified, or glaciofluvial, drift is carried by waters flowing from the melting ice of a glacier.
..... Click the link for more information. , elongated in the direction of the movement of the ice that deposited it. Drumlins, which may be more than 150 ft (45 m) high and more than 1-2 mi (.8 km) long, are common in New York, Wisconsin, Canada, and Northern Ireland.

drumlin

[′drəm·lən]

(geology)

A hill of glacial drift or bedrock having a half-ellipsoidal streamline form like the inverted bowl of a spoon, with its long axis paralleling the direction of movement of the glacier that fashioned it.

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Feore (1994) reviewed a total of 13 focal studies of badger group size in various landclass categories in Great Britain and Ireland (Table 2).We produced mean estimates for 1) pastoral areas with significant broadleaved woodland and scrub (analogous to drumlin farmland), 2) pastoral agriculture (analogous to lakelands, marginal lowlands, central lowlands and marginal uplands) and 3) upland and moorland (analogous to landclass groups settled uplands, high uplands and mountains).

Monitoring and population estimation of the European badger Meles meles in Northern Ireland

Pollen stratigraphy of the Saadjarv Drumlin Field lakes is well studied and available in several publications (Pirrus 1969, 1971, 1983; Pirrus & Rouk 1979).

Late Glacial vegetation, sedimentation and ice recession chronology in the surroundings of Lake Prossa, central Estonia/Taimestik, sedimentatsioon ja jaa taandumise kronoloogia Hilis-Glatsiaalis Prossa jarve umbruses Kesk-Eestis

Some local residents assert that, thus far, the Alexander Company has bought extensive land in the Southdale Neighborhood, including the Drumlin Farms area, for its commercial Novation Campus.

The promise and perils of "new regionalist" approaches to sustainable communities

I climbed the drumlin and looked in all directions for high hills.

Big Hill and the Blackfoot

The whole drumlin had been turned into a cultivated field.

A new early Bronze Age socketed axe/Uus vanema pronksiaja putkkirves

Blunt ends of the wedges rise sheer but slightly battered against the slopes on each side of the drumlin, allowing for two floors of accommodation inside.

House on the hill: in pursuit of a plain architecture suited to an austere landscape, this house is honed to formal essence

"Were the drumlins formed while the glaciers were advancing or while they were retreating?" he asked.

SHAKY GROUND

At the outset, Arroway has government backing for her listening post in Puerto Rico pulled out from under her by erstwhile sponsor and presidential science adviser David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), although not before she has had a brief fling with handsome lapsed seminarian Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey).

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About a year later, a broker showed him the drumlin hill.

James Brady's 'Village in the Sky.' (Brady Development Corp Pres James Brady and his new housing development The Village at Great Hill in Topsfield, MA)

For example, Dane County, WI where these programs were developed contains five distinct physiographic regions--outwash and river plains, ground moraine, drumlin fields, terminal moraine, and unglaciated ridges and valleys, ranging from flat to steep.

A decision aid for soil survey map digitizing

Later titles include Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck (1980), a wry biography with a title taken from a poem by <IR> ROBERT FROST </IR> , and the novels Lying in Bed (1985), Killing Everybody (1987), and Speed (1990).

Harris, Mark (1922- )

Through simple calculations described in the September GEOLOGY, Shaw estimates that 84,000 cubic kilometers of water must have discharged during the creation of one large drumlin field in northern Saskatchewan.