kettle hole
noun1
Geography, Geology, Natural sciences 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.
- 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.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 207:
- Synonyms
- kettle
- Related terms
- kettle lake