caldera
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Between 2013 and 2014, parts of the caldera began rising at rates of more than 15 centimeters a year and earthquake activity increased.
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 Krakatoa.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Anak Krakatoa, 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. 6, 2026
A thousand feet below her, a half-mile-wide caldera yawned at the top of a mountain, white steam pluming from the centre.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
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
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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