caldera
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Poços de Caldas, a city built in the caldera of an extinct volcano, has become one of the centers of the rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Lake Taupō, from which the town takes its name, is a large caldera, a volcano that has collapsed in on itself.
From BBC ● May 20, 2025
Erebus is only a 20-minute helicopter ride from McMurdo, so since the 1960s scientists have studied the volcano and the lava lake that roils within its caldera, occasionally tossing out “bombs” of molten rock.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
The area surrounding the caldera has been closed to the public since 2008 because of other hazards, including ground cracking, instability in the crater wall and rockfalls.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
Yellowstone obviously was of this second type, but Christiansen couldn’t find the caldera anywhere.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
The proposed magma re-injection model aligns with observations of large, shallow magma systems beneath other major calderas such as Yellowstone and Toba.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
Earth MRI has already shown that lithium prospectors need not stick to calderas.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2023
Relics of primordial geological violence are everywhere: plunging rifts and canyons, volcanic calderas, ancient lava flow and a vast, surreal, white desert, almost lunar.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
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 Brassey, Annie
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