kettle hole

English

Lakes formed in kettle holes in Siberia.

Noun

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.

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

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