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kettle2 CONSTRUCTSKettle (Glacial)BENN · GLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGYKettle (Public-order)DELLA PORTA · PUBLIC-ORDER

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Glacial geomorphology

A depression (kettle hole) left where a block of buried glacial ice melted out, often now a pond.

In glacial geomorphology, kettle refers to a depression (kettle hole) left where a block of buried glacial ice melted out, often now a pond. This meaning comes from Benn (2014) in Glaciers and Glaciation, 2nd edition. Here kettle is not a swirling flock of soaring raptors circling together within a rising thermal; nor the tactic ('kettling') of containing a crowd within a tight police cordon.[1]

Unit
landform
Recovery means
morphostratigraphic mapping
Measured by
diameter; depth

Public-order policing

The tactic ('kettling') of containing a crowd within a tight police cordon.

In public-order policing, kettle refers to The tactic ('kettling') of containing a crowd within a tight police cordon. This meaning comes from della Porta (2013) in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Here kettle is not a depression (kettle hole) left where a block of buried glacial ice melted out, often now a pond; nor a swirling flock of soaring raptors circling together within a rising thermal.[2]

Unit
crowd
Recovery means
field observation of containment
Measured by
containment duration; crowd size

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References

  1. Benn, D., & Evans, D. J. A. (2014). Glaciers and Glaciation, 2nd edition. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203785010
  2. della Porta, D. (2013). Policing Protest. In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm152

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