caldera
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Famous examples include Yellowstone, Toba, and Japan's Kikai caldera, most of which lies beneath the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
New events are also appearing along a narrow zone beneath the caldera, notes the analyst, who has now lost their appetite for both food and caution and is writing reports designed to be alarming.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Krakatoa, has been sporadically active since it emerged from the sea at the beginning of last century in the caldera formed after the 1883 eruption of Mount Krakatoa.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The volcano has been sporadically active since it emerged from the sea at the beginning of last century in the caldera that formed after the 1883 eruption of Mount Krakatau.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
I was oily and puffy from thirty-two hours of flying, and I still had the caldera of the solar system’s largest volcano smoldering between my eyebrows.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Located near Managua, Nicaragua's capital, Masaya is a geologically complex volcano featuring multiple overlapping craters and calderas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Earth MRI has already shown that lithium prospectors need not stick to calderas.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2023
But more modest levels of internal heating have given the moon a subsurface ocean and an icy crust rather than lava-spewing calderas.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023
The couple responsible for the film’s entrancing reels of explosions and rivers of molten rock — collected over decades of expeditions to active calderas around the globe — are French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
During the night we approached Palma, another large island of the Canary group, containing one of the most remarkable calderas, or large basins, formed by volcanic action in the world.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
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