- drumlinoid ridge
- A rock drumlin or drift deposit whose form approaches but does not fully attain that of a classic drumlin, even though it seemingly results from similar processes of moving ice.SW & GG
Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.
drumlinoid ridge
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interdrumlin — The concave to relatively flat bottomed, roughly linear depressions ranging from small saddles or swales to small valleys that separate drumlins or drumlinoid ridges in drumlin fields. Streams, if present, have not had a dominant impact on the … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
crag and tail — An elongate hill or ridge of subglacially streamlined drift, having at the stoss end (up ice) a steep, often precipitous face or knob of ice smoothed, resistant bedrock (the “crag”) obstructing the movement of the glacier, and at the lee end… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
drumlin — A low, smooth, elongated oval hill, mound, or ridge of compact till that has a core of bedrock or drift. It usually has a blunt nose facing the direction from which the ice approached and a gentler slope tapering in the other direction. The… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
stoss and lee — An arrangement of small hills or prominent rocks, in a strongly glaciated area, having gentle slopes on the stoss (“up ice”) side and somewhat steeper, plucked slopes on the lee (“down ice”) side. This arrangement is the opposite of crag and… … Glossary of landform and geologic terms
drumlin — /ˈdrʌmlən/ (say drumluhn) noun a long narrow or oval hill of unstratified glacial drift smoothly rounded by the movement of glacier ice. {? variant of drumling, diminutive of Gaelic drum long, narrow hill, ridge} –drumlinoid, adjective, noun …
drum — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a a percussion instrument or toy made of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere covered at one or both ends with stretched skin or parchment and sounded by striking (bass drum; kettledrum). b (often in pl.) a drummer or a percussion… … Useful english dictionary
