Drumlins carved by deforming till streams below the Laurentide ice sheet

The Peterborough drumlin field (5000 km2) is the largest in central Canada and was formed during readvance of the Laurentide ice sheet shortly after 13,000 B.P. Morphometric analysis of 998 drumlins, combined with study of 6921 borehole logs and downhole geophysical data, has established the distribution of drumlin types and their stratigraphy along a 70 km flow line through the drumlin field. In the north, drumlins are spindle-shaped, composed …