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Swan Lake EarthCache

Hidden : 7/15/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The coordinates will bring you to a bench and an information board that was put up by a local nature group. Please say on the trails.

Kettles are caused when a glacier begins to melt and some large blocks of ice are left behind. These isolated blocks become sometimes partially buried by sediment melting off the glacier. As these buried blocks of ice slowly melted, the sediment that was on top of them collapsed into a depression. These depressions are called kettle lakes or kettle holes.

Most kettle lakes are less than 10 meters in depth. Many of the kettles will fill with sediment, water or vegetation. Kettles can also turn in to bogs or peatlands.

From the bench you can see Swan Lake. Look to the fore ground. The depression is where Noon Lake was in the not to distance pass. Sediment has filled the lake so only in the wettest winters will water remain in the kettle hole.


In an email answer the following questions:
1) Name the two other lakes that are mentioned on the information board?
2) How do kettle lakes receive their water?

Failure to email answers to the logging requirements will get your log DELETED!!!

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