Page 536 North Dakota's Mountainous Areas

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• Subjects: Glacial Lake; Tamarack; Stagnant Glacier; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
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Many more depressions formed when buried or partly buried isolated blocks of glacial ice melted, causing the overlying materials to slump down. Geologists refer to these depressions as kettles. Kettles are also found in areas that were not covered by thick stagnant ice, but here they are generally m...