Forested kettle lake. Aerial view of a kettle lake with forested islands. Kettle lakes are glacial features which result from a large body of ice from a glacier being buried by glacial sediment as the glacier retreats. As the block slowly decays,the sediment collapses to form a depression,which becomes filled with water. Areas of shallow sediment are seen here in green surrounding the forested islands. Photographed in Osterseen,southern Germany. This lake was formed by a glacier which descended from the Alps during the last Ice Age | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Edmaier, Bernhard |
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