I've been getting bigger into kettle lakes lately: bigger and bigger into the postglacial landforms known as kettle lakes.

The glacier has been gone for 12,500+ years so I'm surprised this hole hasn't gotten filled in with sediment yet.

 

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In Glacial Lakes State Park in Blue Mounds Township in Pope County, Minnesota, on July 13th, 2012.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Pope (county) (2001059)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• lakes (bodies of water) (300008680)

• prairies (300008880)

• summer (season) (300133099)

• wetlands (300008899)

 

Wikidata items:

• 13 July 2012 (Q17981525)

• Alexandria Moraines and Detroit Lakes Outwash Plain (Q68088190)

• Blue Mounds Township (Q1897434)

• Glacial Lakes State Park (Q5566099)

• July 13 (Q2687)

• July 2012 (Q628497)

• kettle (Q1424609)

• state park (Q1761072)

• Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition (Q7898792)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Lakes—Minnesota (sh85074092)

• Parks—Minnesota (sh85098170)

• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

• Prairies—Minnesota (sh00003450)

• Wetland plants (sh85146327)

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