📚 noun • entry_id 48361
kettle hole
Meanings (ES + gloss)
kettle • marmita de gigante
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.
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