| 单词 | kettle moraine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskettle moraine kettle moraine n. [originally applied as a proper name to such a moraine in Wisconsin] Geomorphology moraine characterized by the presence of numerous kettle holes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun] > glacial bottom moraine1852 overwash1886 kettle moraine1889 outwash1905 1883 T. C. Chamberlin Geol. Wisconsin: Surv. of 1873–9 I. i. xv. 275 That portion of the moraine which..was formed by the joint action of the Green Bay and Lake Michigan glaciers, constitutes a succession of irregular hills and ridges, locally known as the Kettle Range, from the peculiar depressions which characterize it... As this moraine will need a specific name to distinguish it from other similar accumulations, the term Kettle Moraine may fittingly be applied to it.] 1889 G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. vii. 120 Attention was first directed..by President T. C. Chamberlin to the character and connection of the kettle-moraine in Wisconsin. 1894 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 3) 745 The great interlobate ‘Kettle moraine’ formed by the combined action of the ice-lobes of Green Bay and Lake Michigan. 1897 W. B. Scott Introd. Geol. viii. 155 When such masses melt they form depressions in the mound and give rise to the ‘kettle moraines’. 1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xxii. 387 Mounds and ridges of gravelly drift are referred to in British glacial literature as eskers and kames, or, generally, as kettle-drift or kettle-moraine. 1970 B. B. Luckman in C. A. Lewis Glaciations Wales viii. 176 (heading) The Kington-Orleton kettle moraine. < as lemmas |
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