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A kettle pond is a glacial formed depression. As the glaciers receded massive chunks of ice fell that melted and sank into the earth, the resulting "puddle" is a kettle pond. Here in Rhode Island there are many kettle ponds along the coast along the Lateral MORAINES.

Kettle ponds are isolated with no springs or streams in or out, that would be a glacial lake if it did.

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A kettle pond is a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers during the last ice age. They are typically small and round, and can be found in regions that were once covered by glaciers.

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Kettle Lake - kettles are depressions created by partially-buried glacial ice blocks as they melted. The depressions that filled with water became kettle lakes. -vs

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