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  2. Kettle (landform) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Campfield Kettle Hole - Wikipedia

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    Campfield Kettle Hole is situated in the north-east of England, immediately south of the Anglo-Scottish border in the county of Northumberland, some 0.7 miles (1.1 km) south of the town of Cornhill-on-Tweed. The pond lies at 31 metres (102 ft) above sea level within mildly undulating terrain, and is some 0.09 miles (0.14 km) north-south and 0. ...

  4. Giant's kettle - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Kettle hole - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 11 October 2006, at 16:30 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Pothole (landform) - Wikipedia

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    Other names used for riverine potholes are pot, (stream) kettle, giant's kettle, evorsion, hollow, rock mill, churn hole, eddy mill, and kolk. [1] Although somewhat related to a pothole in origin, a plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake ) is the deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall .

  7. Kettlehole - Wikipedia

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  8. Prairie Pothole Region - Wikipedia

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    These depressions are called potholes, glacial potholes, kettles, or kettle lakes. ... This page was last edited on 8 December 2024, at 08:49 (UTC).

  9. Ell Pond (Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

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    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.