kettle hole
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kettle hole (plural kettle holes)
- (geology) A depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 207:
- An adult male mammoth and four juveniles, trapped about 14,500 years ago in a boggy ʽkettle holeʼ left by a retreating glacier in Shropshire, are the most recent record in the UK.
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