Describe and explain the formation and orientation of a drumlin.
Describe and explain the formation and orientation of a drumlin.
Drumlin is an Iris term widely used to describe a smooth, elongated hummock or whaleback hillock of glacial drift, generally till with a long axis parallel to the direction of moving ice.
A drumlin is a stretched hill in the form of a spoon that inverts or like an egg that is half-buried. It constructs by glacial ice adjutant on hidden unconsolidated till or ground hill. Drumlins and the drumlin array are iceberg landforms, constitute primarily of ice floe till. Drumlins forms are mainly symmetric and spindle as well as parabolic and also in the transverse asymmetrical model. From a distance, they look like eggs put in a basket and give rise to a special type of topography known as basket of eggs topography.
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