New England is a treasure house filled with many different types of spiritual, cultural, historical, and other resources. Included in this treasure trove is a rich variety of natural features.
One such natural feature is Walden Pond, a lake located in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden Pond is a good example of a kettle hole or kettle pond (of which there are many in the New England area). Kettle holes/ponds may be formed after blocks of ice break of retreating glaciers. These ice blocks may be covered and surrounded by sediment being carried by water coming off the melting glacier. As the ice blocks melt, they form a depression the sediment that had been left behind. Initially, these kettle ponds were filled by the meltwater from the glacier, and they continue to receive water from precipitation and from area groundwater.
Walden Pond was made famous by Henry David Thoreau's book, Walden, Or Life in the Woods (published in 1854).
For more information about Walden Pond, please visit:
Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation: Walden Pond State Reservation
New England Travel Planner: Walden Pond, Concord, MA
Answers.com: Walden Pond
Other background information:
Henry David Thoreau: Walden, Or Life In The Woods
The Walden Woods Project
Wikipedia: Kettle (landform)
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