description...of outwash atop the irregular glacier terminus. Kettles may range in size from 5 m (15 feet) to 13 km (8 miles) in diameter and up to 45 m in depth. When filled with water they are called kettle lakes. Most kettles are circular in shape because melting blocks of ice tend to become rounded; distorted or branching depressions may result from extremely irregular ice masses....melt, depressions remain in their place, bordered by slumped masses of the surrounding glacial deposits. Many of the lakes in areas of glacial deposition are water-filled kettles and so are called kettle lakes. If a sandur or valley train contains many kettles, it is referred to as a pitted outwash plain.
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