drumlinizev.
/ˈdrʌmlɪnʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdrəmləˌnaɪz/ Geology and Physical Geography.
transitive. Of glacial action, ice, etc.: to form or shape into a drumlin or drumlins; to produce drumlins in or on. Usually in passive.In quot. 1906 as participial adjective.
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1906 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 17 703 Vast areas of glaciated territory seem never to have been subjected to the drumlinizing movement of the ground-contact ice.
1909 H. L. Fairchild Glacial Waters Central New York 24 The drift is scanty and the land surface has not been rubbed or drumlinized by the ground-contact ice.
1940 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1938–40 B. 45 266 The ice sheet was at this time sufficiently thick to fashion drumlins up to one thousand feet above its lowest point and drumlinise or flute hill surfaces at even higher levels.
2010 D. I. Benn & D. J. A. Evans Glaciers & Glaciation (ed. 2) xi. 462/1 This exposure clearly documents the deposition of ice-contact delta foreset bedding that has been overridden and drumlinized by a glacier readvance.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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