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A pothole is a pot-shaped depression in a road surface, [1] usually asphalt pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying soil structure and traffic passing over the affected area.
Pit cave near Benagil in Lagoa, Portugal A caver rappelling into Mexico's enormous pit cave, Sotano de las Golondrinas Pit cave Haviareň, Little Carpathians. A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric ...
In Earth science, a pothole is a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow, generally deeper than wide, found carved into the rocky bed of a watercourse. Other names used for riverine potholes are pot , (stream) kettle , giant's kettle , evorsion , hollow , rock mill , churn hole , eddy mill , and kolk . [ 1 ]
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 ...
A geological pothole is a natural depression in the rock filled with cooled magma, creating a fault. In horizontal section, potholes are roughly circular to elliptical and vary in diameter from 20 m to more than 1 km. In vertical section, their shape is generally dish-like and may be quite asymmetric. [1]
A pothole is a surface disruption in a roadway, caused by fatigue and erosion. Pothole may also refer to: Pothole (geology), a phenomenon encountered in the platinum mining industry in South Africa; Pothole (landform), evorsion, swirlhole, or giant's kettle, a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow created by water erosion of bedrock
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is an expansive area of the northern Great Plains that contains thousands of shallow wetlands known as potholes. These potholes are the result of glacier activity in the Wisconsin glaciation , which ended about 10,000 years ago.
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]