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#97544 03/04/03 01:46 AM
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Jackie Offline OP
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I found a word that I just love: drumlins!
The proposed catastrophic sheet floods, as wide as the drumlin fields, formed the drumlins and related streamlined landforms, such as flutings, over wide areas. So-called rogen moraine, consisting of transverse ridges of drift, often found associated with drumlins, is reinterpreted in the meltwater flood hypothesis as possible giant current ripples.

http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/sgfcrit.html

From Atomica: [From drum, ridge, from Irish Gaelic druim, back, ridge, from Old Irish.]


#97545 03/04/03 02:04 AM
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cool!



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#97546 03/04/03 03:03 AM
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Here's another geology glacier site, with diagrams of drumlins. Scroll down about halfway
until you see caption "Drumlins" and then see "Diagrams 1 and 2..." Note that they are
egg shaped, with long axis parallel to direction of ice flow.
http://math.cochise.edu/People/faculty/wellerr/chapter12.html



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