A hollow, typically filled by a lake, resulting from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits.
〔地质〕锅穴
Example sentencesExamples
For the last two summer vacations, every day I would head out in the morning to explore kettle holes, would find two or three small sites and would come home satisfied.
The land includes a kettle hole, which will be utilized as a wetlands habitat for native plants and animals as well as an area to contain and clean storm runoff from the building's roof and parking areas.
Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay.
The form and stratigraphy of an oval peat-filled area north of Wolverhampton is investigated and interpreted as the filling of a kettle-hole formed during the retreat of the Irish Sea glacier.
I am rubbish at sport, science and geography - although I can draw an excellent diagram of a kettle hole.
Definition of kettle hole in US English:
kettle hole
noun
Geology
A hollow, typically filled by a lake, resulting from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits.
〔地质〕锅穴
Example sentencesExamples
The land includes a kettle hole, which will be utilized as a wetlands habitat for native plants and animals as well as an area to contain and clean storm runoff from the building's roof and parking areas.
For the last two summer vacations, every day I would head out in the morning to explore kettle holes, would find two or three small sites and would come home satisfied.
The form and stratigraphy of an oval peat-filled area north of Wolverhampton is investigated and interpreted as the filling of a kettle-hole formed during the retreat of the Irish Sea glacier.
I am rubbish at sport, science and geography - although I can draw an excellent diagram of a kettle hole.
Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay.