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  2. Kettle (landform) - Wikipedia

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    The lake colors indicate amounts of sediment or depth. A kettle (also known as a kettle hole, kettlehole, or pothole) is a depression or hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment ...

  3. Kettle Lakes Provincial Park - Wikipedia

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    Ontario Parks. Kettle Lakes Provincial Park is a provincial park in northeastern Ontario, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Timmins. It is administered by Ontario Parks, which classifies it as a recreation park. The landscape of the park is the legacy of the retreat of an enormous glacier at the end of the last Ice Age, approximately 12,000 ...

  4. Chain O'Lakes State Park (Indiana) - Wikipedia

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    A wagon wheel grown into the V of a deceased Ash tree, near the boat launch on Long Lake (2012). Chain O'Lakes is an Indiana state park on 2,718 acres (11.00 km 2) in Noble County, Indiana, in the United States. The park is located near the towns of Albion and Avilla and is 19 miles (31 km) northwest of the northeastern Indiana's major city ...

  5. Ecology of the Oak Ridges Moraine - Wikipedia

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    The Oak Ridges Moraine lies in Southern Ontario, Canada. It contains the headwaters of sixty-five rivers and streams. It has a wide diversity of woodlands, wetlands, watercourses, kettle lakes, kettle bogs, and significant flora and fauna. It is one of the few remaining continuous green corridors in southern Ontario: it remains thirty percent ...

  6. Portage Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The Portage Lakes are a group of glacial kettle lakes and reservoirs in Northeast Ohio. The name comes from an old Indian portage path that connected the Cuyahoga River flowing north to Lake Erie and the Tuscarawas River, a tributary of the Muskingum River, which flows south to the Ohio River. This proved advantageous for the Indians and early ...

  7. Category:Kettle lakes - Wikipedia

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    U. Kettle lakes in the United Kingdom (16 P) Kettle lakes in the United States (23 P)

  8. Calamus Swamp - Wikipedia

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    39°35′N83°0′W39.583°N 83.000°W. Area. 19 acres (7.7 ha) Established. 2000. Calamus Swamp. Calamus Swamp is a 19-acre (0.077 km 2) public preserve located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. It has a natural kettle lake/wetland and is owned by the Columbus Audubon, the local chapter of Audubon.

  9. Lake Ronkonkoma (lake) - Wikipedia

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    Lake Ronkonkoma is a freshwater lake in Suffolk County, New York. It is a kettle lake formed by retreating glaciers and is the largest freshwater lake on Long Island; it has a circumference of about 2 miles (3.2 km) and is 0.65 miles (1.05 km) across on average. [1] The lake is owned by the Town of Islip under the terms of the Nichols Patent.