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Kettle hole

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  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits wordnet

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