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Giant's kettle

A giant's kettle, also known as either a giant's cauldron, moulin pothole, or glacial pothole, is a typically large and cylindrical pothole drilled in solid rock underlying a glacier either by water descending down a deep moulin or by gravel rotating in the bed of subglacial meltwater stream.[1]

For other uses, see Pothole (disambiguation).

The interiors of potholes tend to be smooth and regular, unlike a plunge pool. An example is the large pothole found in Archbald, Pennsylvania, in Archbald Pothole State Park.

Pothole (disambiguation)

Sinkhole

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Giant's Kettle". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 927.

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