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 ...

NASA’s latest image of Boston Harbor, showcasing its remarkable drumlin islands, has captivated both scientists and nature enthusiasts. Captured on July 19, 2024, by the Landsat 8 Operational Land ...

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 ...

Graph showing changes in the outline of the bed of the Rutford Ice Stream between 1991and 1997 (top graph) and between 1997 and 2004 (bottom graph); a considerable amount of erosion was noted in 1997, ...