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The term “basket-of-eggs topography” in glacial geomorphology is a metaphor for the appearance of drumlin fields.

Drumlin is Gaelic for a smooth, rounded but elongate hill or ridge. Where you find one drumlin you usually find a whole field. They tend to be quite tightly packed, and a basket of eggs is a rather apt analogy.More apt than you might think.Laying an egg is a practical problem in hydrodynamics, solved long ago by our amphibian and reptilian ancestors. Forcing glacier ice over a resistant bed is an analogous problem, at least to the extent that both the bird and the glacier – usually an ice sheet – have to balance force against resistance.

Drumlin is Gaelic for a smooth, rounded but elongate hill or ridge. Where you find one drumlin you usually find a whole field. They tend to be quite tightly packed, and a basket of eggs is a rather apt analogy.More apt than you might think.Laying an egg is a practical problem in hydrodynamics, solved long ago by our amphibian and reptilian ancestors. Forcing glacier ice over a resistant bed is an analogous problem, at least to the extent that both the bird and the glacier – usually an ice sheet – have to balance force against resistance.
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