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A kettle (also known as a kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased ...
The Prairie Pothole Region provides important habitats for migratory waterfowl and other wildlife, supporting more than 50% of North America's migratory waterfowl. [9] In particular, the region is one of North America's most important breeding areas for ducks. Although the region contains only about one-tenth of the continent's habitat area for ...
Ell Pond is a kettle hole in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. It is surrounded by a swamp of red maple and Atlantic white cypress, and by steep granitic monadnocks. The small area contains communities of both hydrophytic and xeric plants, which makes it ideal for ecological research and education.
Glacial pothole in Bloomington on the St. Croix River at Interstate State Park, Wisconsin, U.S.. A giant's kettle, also known as either a giant's cauldron, moulin pothole, or glacial pothole, is a typically large and cylindrical pothole drilled in solid rock underlying a glacier either by water descending down a deep moulin or by gravel rotating in the bed of subglacial meltwater stream. [1]
Walden Pond is a historic pond in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States.A good example of a kettle hole, it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago. [4]
Known as the “kettle hole” lake, Springfield Lake is one of the few natural lakes in the state, according to the ODNR. It is a representative of melted glaciers from the last ice age and is ...
Spy Pond, also known as Spie Pond in the 17th and 18th centuries, [1] [2] is a 103-acre (0.42 km 2) kettle hole pond located near the heart of Arlington, Massachusetts, United States, adjacent to the Minuteman Bikeway.
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