Shows a VERNAL POOL in a KETTLE among KAMES in an area of kame-and-kettle topography.

HONOR MY MEMORIES of the decay of the Saginaw Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, from back when the Wisconsin glaciation was starting to wind down.

 

I have been aggressively lobbying for this wonderful kettle to be designated a National Natural Landmark. I worry that my strident advocacy might be antagonizing potential allies!

 

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In the Waterloo State Recreation Area in Jackson County, Michigan, on April 2nd, 2020, along the Waterloo-Pinckney Trail in Grass Lake Charter Township.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Jackson (county) (1002509)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• brown (color) (300127490)

• glacial landforms (300008832)

• kames (300132327)

• parks (recreation areas) (300008187)

• ponds (water) (300008688)

• spring (season) (300133097)

• temperate deciduous forests (300387649)

• wetlands (300008899)

 

Wikidata items:

• 2 April 2020 (Q57396689)

• April 2 (Q2511)

• April 2020 (Q55020106)

• Grass Lake Charter Township (Q5597447)

• Interlobate Dead Ice Moraines (Q98838768)

• Kalamazoo Moraine of the Saginaw Lobe (Q98858513)

• kettle (Q1424609)

• Saginaw Lobe (Q98858041)

• Southern Great Lakes forests (Q16201663)

• Southern Michigan (Q7570136)

• Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains (Q53769966)

• state park (Q1761072)

• Treaty of Detroit (Q1639077)

• vernal pool (Q1103796)

• water stagnation (Q3046751)

• Waterloo-Pinckney Trail (Q7974202)

• Waterloo State Recreation Area (Q7974291)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Forests and forestry—Michigan (sh2009125452)

• Parks—Michigan (sh85098169)

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