caldera
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The finding, led by Kobe University researchers studying Japan's Kikai caldera, offers new insight into how massive caldera systems such as Yellowstone and Toba evolve over time and may help improve future eruption forecasting.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 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
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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