hummocky

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hum·mock

 (hŭm′ək)
n.
1. A low mound or ridge of earth; a knoll.
2. See hammock2.
3. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.

[Origin unknown.]

hum′mock·y adj.
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This interval contains ball and pillow structures, hummocky cross stratification, parallel and low-angle laminations, wavy and flaser bedding.
Table 1 Difference between median arsenic concentrations in samples from glacial materials and all other samples (a) Difference in Glacial median arsenic geology concentration (b) 2.6 Hummocky moraines 1.7 Ground moraines 0.4 Karnes -1.0 Alluvium -1.5 Unglaciated areas -1.6 Lacustrine deposits -2.1 Lacustrine clays -4.7 Valley train outwash (a) Only statistically significant results calculated from a minimum of 50 observations are shown.
When we relocated a bit further to the east, we ended up in some very hummocky, outcropping rock."
Access to the material they had traveled to Mars to study lay 8 km (5 mi) to the southwest, across a hummocky plain of mostly unexciting rocks and soil, then across a break in a dangerous band of active sand dunes (see below).
The landscapes of the most humid areas of the territory are characterized by the alternation of hilly permafrost-affected peat bogs (with shrub, moss, and lichen vegetation on the hillocks and sedge-cotton grass-moss vegetation in the depressions) and hummocky permafrost-affected shrub-lichen-moss bogs combined with hummock-hollow bogs.
To the untrained eye it holds little attraction, its hummocky surface supporting only a forest of chin-high stinging nettle and a couple dozen willow skeletons stripped of all signs of life by the generations of cormorants who've made the island their nesting ground.
The second type of storm facies is characterised by bioclastic limestones with hummocky structures.
The oddly hummocky terrain left in the eruption's wake (SN: 4/24/10, p.
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