Newport Kettle Lake and Moraine EarthCache

Newport Kettle Lake and Moraine

Brooklyn is a community located in western Hants County, Nova Scotia with a population of 916 people in 2016. The centre of the community is located at the junction of Routes 14 and 215.The community was Nelegakumik by the Mi'kmaq Nation (meaning "broken snowshoes"). Brooklyn is unusual in that its post office is officially called Newport. There is a limestone ridge along here that might have contributed to the formation of the kettle lake and moraine.

Besides ridges, hills, and blankets of till, melting glaciers also leave behind depressions of various sizes that can become lakes. Landscapes shaped by glaciers are often dotted with small kettle lakes as well as larger lakes. A is a bowl-shaped depression that was formed by a block of ice from a glacier and then became filled with water.

Kettle, also called Kettle Hole, in geology, depression in a glacial outwash drift made by the melting of a detached mass of glacial ice that became wholly or partly buried. When filled with water they are called kettle lakes. They are filled with either rainwater or surface runoff. Kettle lakes and kettle ponds have no natural inlet or outlet, thus many of them fill up with vegetation and become bogs.

Newport Moraine

A moraine is material left behind by a moving glacier. This material is usually soil and rock. Just as rivers carry along all sorts of debris and silt that eventually builds up to form deltas, glaciers transport all sorts of dirt and boulders that build up to form moraines

There are many different types of moraines that form as a glacier carves its way across a landscape: lateral moraines, which form on the side of the glacier.

Different types of moraine

• Terminal moraines are found at the terminus or the furthest (end) point reached by a glacier.

• Lateral moraines are found deposited along the sides of the glacier.

• Medial moraines are found at the junction between two glaciers.

• Ground moraines are disorganized piles of rocks of various shapes, sizes and of differing rock types.

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Questions:

1. At ground zero, look North/West to see the Moraine; estimate how long the Moraine is and what type of Moraine it is?

2. What is this Moraine made of, look at the slide site?

3. At N44 59.550   W064 02.077, estimate how long and wide the Kettle lake is?

4. What geological structure was formed on the west side of the Kettle lake?

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