A kettle (kettle hole, pothole) is a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of ice calving from glaciers and becoming submerged in the sediment on the outwash plain. Another source is the sudden drainage of an ice-dammed lake. When the block melts, the hole it leaves behind is a kettle. As the ice melts, ramparts can form around the edge of the kettle hole. The lakes that fill these holes are seldom more than 10m (33ft) and eventually become filled with sediment. In acid conditions, a kettle bog may form but in alkaline conditions, it will be kettle peatland.
Overview
Kettles are fluvioglacial landforms occurring as the result of blocks of ice calving from the front of a receding glacier and becoming partially to wholly buried by glacial outwash. Glacial outwash is generated when streams of meltwater flow away from the glacier and deposit sediment to form broad outwash plains called sandurs. When the ice blocks melt, kettle holes are left in the sandur. When the development of numerous kettle holes disrupt sandur surfaces, a jumbled array of ridges and mounds form, resembling kame and kettle topography. Kettle holes can also occur in ridge shaped deposits of loose rock fragments called till.
aalto häilyy kimallellen aurinko vettä tanssittaa näkeekö äiti veden takaa poikansa siniset silmät? tuuli pyyhkii metsän selkää oksia sivuun taivuttaa näkeekö äiti puiden takaa poikansa siniset silmät? pisarat puhkoo hiekan pintaa totuutta uutta rummuttaa näkeekö äiti sateen takaa poikansa siniset silmät? muistot mittaa uutta päivää mitään ei saata unohtaa näkeekö äiti ajan takaa
Pictured right. The hollowed-out shoes she used to smuggle drugs ...Burton was locked up for 20 months ... He found that more than a dozen cells at HMP Garth had holes in their windows, which had been burnt by inmates using the element from their kettles ... .
As the waterway that fed the pond narrowed, we passed a leaf-filled depression that I first thought was a kettle hole left from a chunk of ice that broke off a receding glacier ... gaping holes or caves.
