Outdoor Elements. Glacial History. Clip | 3m 31s. Did you know Spicer Lake is a kettle lake? Did you know Spicer Lake is a kettle lake? This week, we learn more about how glaciers from thousands ...

Kettle lakes dot the county, too. They started as chunks of ice left behind by a retreating glacier. “Eventually soil buried them, and as they melted, they created circular lakes called kettle ...

From Butler Lake, the trail climbs up and down along the sinuous spine of the Parnell Esker, a nearly 4-mile ridge created by a glacier that retreated from this land more than 10,000 years ago.

Jared Wildenradt has hiked the Ice AgeTrail nine times. Lisa Siewert is mapping the geologic highlights of the path. They ...

Round Lake began life at the end of the last Ice Age as a “kettle” lake when the glaciers, some of them two miles high, began to retreat. As the ice melted, a gigantic chunk of it could snag ...

Kettle lakes were formed by the retreat of the glaciers during the last ice age about 12,000 years ago. When glaciers receded north, some massive pieces of ice left behind sank deep into soils ...

Kettle holes may be found if a block of 'dead ice' is partially buried by fluvio-glacial deposits. When the ice melts a hole is left which may fill with water to form a kettle hole lake. Figure ...

The Portage Glacier just outside Anchorage is a huge tourist attraction in the summer. In the winter, the lake at the toe of the glacier freezes over, and locals can skate to it.