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Kettle holes


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    • Kettle hole lakes
    • Kettle hole ponds
    • Kettle lakes
    • Kettle ponds
    • Kettleholes
    • Kettles (Landforms)
    • Potholes (Kettle holes)
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    • found: Work cat.: 99195782: Kaźmierczak, E. The vegetation of kettle-holes in central Poland, 1997.
    • found: Web. 3(kettle: 3b: steep-sided hollow without surface drainage, esp. in a deposit of glacial drift)
    • found: Random House(kettle hole: a deep, kettle-shaped depression in glacial drift)
    • found: Concise Oxford dict. of earth sci., 1990(kettle hole (kettle): depression in the surface of glacial drift resulting from the melting of an included ice mass; it may be filled with water to form a small lake)
    • found: Gloss. geol.(kettle hole: kettle)
    • found: Stregeler, S.E. Dict. of earth sci., 1976(kettle hole: a depression in the ground surface in a glaciated area)
    • found: Encyc. dict. of phys. geo., 1988(kettle; kettle hole: an enclosed depression resulting from the melting of buried ice)
    • found: GeoRef(kettles)
    • found: Small, J. A modern dict. of geo., c1989(kettle (sometimes kettle hole): a circular depression, initially filled by meltwater, resulting from the gradual decay of a block of ice buried by overlying sediments)
    • found: Fairbridge, R.W. Encyc. of geomorphology, c1968(kettle: a term applied to a geomorphoc feature, a depression or hollow of small dimensions often as "kettle hole")
    • found: Dict. of geol. terms, 1984(kettle)
    • found: Kettleholes WWW site, Sept. 9, 1999.
    • found: Geography Exchange Resource Center WWW site, Sept. 9, 1999:under Glaciers and glaciation (glaciers ... which produce ... landscape features such as ... kettleholes)
    • found: Types of wetlands WWW site, Sept. 9. 1999:under Bogs (kettle holes)
    • found: Physical effects of glaciers WWW site, Sept. 9, 1999(kettle holes)
    • found: A moving meditation, 2023:CIP galley (Some Cape Cod kettle ponds are more than 50 feet deep, while Walden Pond is over 100 feet deep, the deepest kettle pond in Massachusetts)
    • found: Cape Cod National Seashore website viewed June 6, 2023:NPS.gov>Park>Home>Learn About the Park>Nature>Natural Features & Ecosystems>Lakes and Ponds (Kettle ponds are scattered across the outer Cape Cod landscape, an area consisting of glacial outwash plains that formed during the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet some 18,000 years ago; Depressions in the outwash plain are called kettle holes; These kettle hole lakes and ponds have little to no surface-water inflows or outflows, and receive all of their hydrologic inputs from groundwater and precipitation) - https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/nature/lakes-and-ponds.htm
    • found: New England Historical Society website, viewed June 6, 2023:THE KETTLE HOLES OF NEW ENGLAND (12 OTHER STATES HAVE THEM TOO) (You'll find thousands of kettle holes in New England; they can be ponds, lakes or bogs, but they always result from an iceberg that calved from a glacier and then melted; America has two famous kettle holes, one mythical, the other with mythical status. They are Lake Wobegon in Minnesota and Walden Pond in Massachusetts; Cape Cod has more than a thousand ponds and lakes and almost 500 of them are kettles) - https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-kettle-holes-of-new-england/
    • found: Wikipedia, June 14, 2023:(A kettle (also known as a kettle lake, kettle pond, kettle hole, or pothole))
    • notfound: McGraw-Hill encyc. of the geol. sci., c1988;Challinor dict. geol.
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    • 1999-10-12: new
    • 2023-10-18: revised
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