kettle

ENVO:00000311 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·CLOSE REVIEWED

A fluvioglacial landform occurring as the result of blocks of ice calving from the front of a receding glacier and becoming partially to wholly buried by glacial outwash. Glacial outwash is generated when sediment laden streams of meltwater flow away from the glacier and are deposited to form broad outwash plains called sandurs. When the ice blocks melt, holes are left in the sandur. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Freshwater > Kettle hole 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

depressed landform ENVO:00000309
fresh water ENVO:00002011
surface landform ENVO:01001884

Also called

Kettle hole — GOLD
basin — ENVO
kettle hole — ENVO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

REVIEW 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. CLOSE-grounding review (#12): read against the full source path and the term's own definition. The grounding is right and CLOSE is the honest status — the term is the concept with a difference of framing or specificity that EXACT would overstate. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.3486e75e52)

Provenance

Generated by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record.