A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.
A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.
A small, rounded or cone-shaped, low hill or a surface of other small, irregular shapes. A surface that is not equidimensional or ridgelike.
A low mound or ridge of earth.
In hydrologic terms, a hillock of broken ice which has been forced upward by pressure
A round hill or knoll. In the Arctic these are caused by the freeze-thaw cycle.
A natural elevation of the earth's surface resembling a hillock, but smaller and lower.
Rounded or conical mounds within a volcanic landslide or debris avalanche deposit. Hummocks contain a wide range of rock debris, reflecting the variation of deposits that previously formed the flanks of the volcano. Some hummocks contain huge intact blocks tens to hundreds of meters in diameter. Some of the original layering of lava flows and other deposits can be seen in these large hummocks, but most of the large rock fragments are thoroughly shattered. In other hummocks the rock debris is thoroughly mixed as if the material had been in a blender and thoroughly mixed together.
A low mound, usually of peat, caused by frost heaving.
a smooth hill of ice that forms on the sea ice surface from eroding ridges, particularly during the summer melt; the formation of hummocks is similar to young mountain peaks with steep slopes that erode into smooth, rolling hills. Hummocks make the ice surface appear as rolling hills. (Photo courtesy of Ted Maksym, United States Naval Academy.)
A mound of broken ice projecting upward, formed by ice deformation. The submerged counterpart of a hummock is termed a bummock. See also ridge.
In northern bogs, mounds built up by successive generations, and species, of Sphagnum Moss.
Hummock (of uncertain derivation; cf. hump or hillock), a boss or rounded knoll of ice rising above the general level of an ice-field, making sledge travelling in the Arctic and Antarctic region extremely difficult and unpleasant.
