Drumlins are a ubiquitous landform in lands once overrun by glaciers, and yet after two centuries of studying them, we still aren’t certain how these teardrop-shaped hills form. Top image: A drumlin ...

One of the puzzles that geologists occasionally ponder is the nature of eskers and drumlins. Eskers are winding ridges a few tens of metres high that look remarkably like railway embankments. Indeed ...

Scientists have discovered a warehouse-sized drumlin – a mound of sediment and rock – actively forming and growing under the ice sheet in Antarctica. Its discovery, and the rate at which it was formed ...

For the first time, a drumlin - a mound of sediment and rock - has been observed mid-formation. The streamlined, elongated hills form underneath ice-sheets as they scrape up material as they move.

AMES, Iowa – Long, narrow hills called drumlins form underneath glaciers, far from the eyes and instruments of geologists. And so – despite 150 years of studies, 1,300 publications and fields of ...

Scientists have discovered a warehouse-sized drumlin -- a mound of sediment and rock -- actively forming and growing under the ice sheet in Antarctica. Its discovery, and the rate at which it was ...