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caldera

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


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The discovery, led by researchers at Kobe University, could improve understanding of enormous caldera systems such as Yellowstone in the United States and Toba in Indonesia.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Kikai is a mostly submerged volcanic caldera south of Japan.

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

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

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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