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Keywords: Glacier, Till, Glacial, Buried, Melt
A circular depression in the ground made when a block of ice calves off the toe of a glacier, becomes buried by till, and later melts.
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A hollow in sand and gravel where an underlying body of ice has been melted out.
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Depression found in glacial deposits. Created when a piece of ice from a retreating glacier becomes embedded in soft glacial till or glacial drift deposits. Many are filled with water to form a small lake or pond.
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(geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits
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a geological feature formed by receding glaciers
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a hollow created when buried blocks of glacier ice melt out
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