Looking over Towards Dorback Lodge over a Kettle Hole in the Northern Cairngorms National Park, Scottish Highland, Scotland, UK
A kettle hole is formed by blocks of ice that are separated from the main glacier - perhaps the ice front stagnated or retreated or perhaps ice blocks were washed out from the glacier during a glacier flood or jökulhaup. If conditions are right, the isolated blocks of ice then become partially or wholly buried in outwash. When the ice blocks eventually melt they leave behind holes or depressions that fill with water to become kettle hole lakes.
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Location: Braes of Abernathy, Northern Cairngorms National Park, Scottish Highland, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Antonio Siwiak / Alamy / Afripics
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