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VIII.—Scottish Drumlins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

J. W. Gregory
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Drumlins are mounds of boulder clay and are characteristic features of the minor topography of Southern Scotland. The word drum or drumlin as the name of these drift hills is indigenous both in Scotland and Ireland. It is common in Scottish place-names as in Drymen, Tyndrum, and Drumadoon. J. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1880, vol. ii, p. 116) defines a drum as a knoll or ridge, and refers to its use in the Statistical Account of Scotland as early as 1797. Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1900, vol. ii, p. 190), attributes drum to Scotland, but quotes drumlin from Ireland in Antrim and Down. Its first use as a technical term in geology appears to have been in Ireland by Scouler in 1833, who applied it to eskers and to mounds of boulder clay; its restriction to the latter is due first to Maxwell Close (Journ. Roy. Geol. Soc. Ireland, i, 1866, pp. 212, 213.)

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , 1926 , pp. 433 - 440
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1926

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page 434 note * Chamberlin and Salisbury give a useful catalogue of references to the extensive American literature on the subject.

page 440 note * This conclusion was briefly stated by the author in 1915, Proc. Geol. Assoc., xxvi, p. 160.