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caldera

[kal-der-uh, kawl-] / kælˈdɛr ə, kɔl- /
NOUN
crater
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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Scientists have also identified large, shallow magma reservoirs beneath other major caldera systems, including Yellowstone and Toba.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

The Yellowstone caldera in the western United States is one of the world's best-known supervolcanoes.

From Science Daily Jun. 28, 2026

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

This approach allowed them to build a detailed picture of the structures beneath the caldera.

From Science Daily Mar. 29, 2026

Empedocles is said to have died in an apotheotic fit by leaping into the hot lava at the summit caldera of the great volcano of Aetna.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The findings support a broader model in which fresh magma gradually enters and rebuilds reservoirs beneath giant calderas after major eruptions.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Earth MRI has already shown that lithium prospectors need not stick to calderas.

From Science Magazine Jun. 1, 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

The valley was wide and flat, pocked with gaping calderas that blew enormous plumes of steam into the air, like sideways clouds drifting into the sky.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2020

The lava in the calderas boils because of escaping steam, but the vapor emitted is comparatively little, and seldom hangs above the summits in heavy clouds.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton




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