The Saugeen Kame Terraces is a 431-hectare provincially significant ''Earth Science''
Area of Natural and Scientific Interest
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in
Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
[ ] It is in
Grey County
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(in what was once Egremont Township), bounding the eastern and southern shores of
Wilder Lake, a
kettle lake
A kettle (also known as a kettle lake, kettle hole, or pothole) is a depression/hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating g ...
, and is part of the larger
Singhampton Kame Moraine formation. It is a
kame formation that is the result of glacial retreat sediment deposition about 14,000 years ago.
References
Geography of Grey County
Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest
Kames
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