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Meaning of "hummocks"

hummock (noun): A small hill, knoll, or mound of earth, ice, or debris. It is typically found in landscapes shaped by glaciers, oceans, or other natural forces
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Krak immediately went toward the hummocks.
The hummocks alternate with shallow wet depressions or flarks.
Sometimes small lakes occur between the hummocks.
The floor has numerous hummocks and rough spots.
Usually level terrain with characteristic rounded hummocks.
The hummocks became islands.
Over a quarter of the park is dominated by these hummocks.
It is these two hummocks which give the island its name.
Abundance of cedar regeneration was positively correlated with percentage of hummocks.
Some hummocks contain huge intact blocks tens to hundreds of meters in diameter.
These are the detached hummocks.
Among sand dunes it forms hummocks and plays an important role in stabilising dunes.
Describes the pressure process by which ice is forced into hummocks.
The summit consists of three rocky hummocks on the east side of the wall.
Hummocks provide information on the transport conditions and initial composition of the landslide.

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Be covered with hummocks.
Mean height of hummocks within a mire was increased with precipitation during the growing season.
They hunt by night and rest among the spinnifex hummocks by day.
Hummocks are identified as a key structural element of DAD.
They are a major threat to this species because of its dependence on large spinifex hummocks.
Henry Lloyd saw it by those hummocks at four bells.
South Hummocks formerly had a government school and a church.
Tabanid pupae and pupal exuviae were collected from moss hummocks in the peatland.
Mesic tussocks and hummocks ; hygric troughs between tussocks or hummocks.
Here the ridges of the string bogs can grow into hummocks several metres high.
Hummocks ( nonsorted circles ) are widely distributed in arctic and subarctic regions.
The plant can often be found growing on hummocks of Sphagnum mosses.
Hummocks even smoother than in second year ice, and the ice is almost salt free.
DCA further revealed marked differences in the vegetation occurring on peat hummocks versus in hollows.
Height of the large hummocks is approximately 2 m.
Thus Dubaybat means the small hummocks.
When the peat layer thickens, hummocks with several species of peat moss are formed.
Dotted as if bombarded, with green hummocks.
The low-lying areas between hummocks are called hollows.
The moss will form thread-like branches interwoven within hummocks.
Acutifolia plants generally form hummocks above the water line, usually colored orange or red.
Along the Florida Panhandle, most dunes are considered to be foredunes or hummocks.
Strong storm-wave action erodes the seabed into low hummocks and swales that lack a specific orientation.
Typical habitats include bog edges, swampy areas, and hummocks.
Let the hummocks speak!
I knocked into something, two swollen objects, two flabby hummocks.
Where continuous vegetation occurs, it usually consists of hummocks of mosses, lichens, grasses, and sedges.
Many of the hummocks have a form similar to a cone Fig . 5.
Up ahead, northeast, where I must be heading, I could see a chain of high hummocks.
The main attractions are its hummocks ( mogotes ), small rounded mountains with plenty of tropical vegetation.
Phillip Parker King also mentioned the Hummocks in his journals in 1820.

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