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Kettle Lake

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A depression, often filled with water, formed where a block of glacial ice became buried in outwash sediment and later melted, leaving the surrounding sediment to slump into the resulting hollow. Kettle lakes dot many formerly glaciated outwash plains, including much of the northern United States and Canada.

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