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Kettle

A depression that forms in an outwash plain or other glacial deposit by the melting of an in-situ block of glacier ice that was separated from the retreating glacier-margin and subsequently buried by glacier sedimentation. As the buried ice melts, the depression enlarges.

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  • Industry/Domain: Water bodies
  • Category: Glaciers
  • Government Agency: USGS
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