kettle hole

English

Lakes formed in kettle holes in Siberia.

Noun

kettle hole (plural kettle holes)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• kettle

Related terms

• kettle lake

Translations

depression in the ground

• Bulgarian: понор m (ponor)
• Finnish: suppa (fi)
• Spanish: kettle, marmita de gigante
• Swedish: dödisgrop c, dödishåla c