caldera

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Its sides are sheer and vertical, and on its top is a 100-foot-deep caldera.

From Los Angeles Times

The helicopter went down in the Kronotsky nature reserve, and the regional administration said workers were searching for survivors in Kuril Lake, which was formed in a volcano caldera and crater.

From Seattle Times

Officials said eruptive activity typically includes minor ash, lava fountaining and lava flows from the small cone in the ice-filled summit caldera.

From Seattle Times

Video from W rim of the caldera just before midnight.

From Scientific American

And across the water, the jagged profile of Rum, its ragged ridgeline all that remains of an enormous caldera, the great volcano that produced that island, and this one too.

From The Guardian