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What is the name of a long and low hill of sediments which have been deposited by a glacier?

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a drumlin

A drumlin is a long, low hill of sediments deposited by a glacier. Drumlins often occur in groups called drumlin fields. The narrow end of each drumlin points in the direction the glacier was moving when it dropped the sediments.

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