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The term caldera comes from Spanish caldera, and Latin caldaria, meaning "cooking pot". [6] In some texts the English term cauldron is also used, [7] though in more recent work the term cauldron refers to a caldera that has been deeply eroded to expose the beds under the caldera floor. [6]
A topographic map of Ngorongoro Crater in northern Tanzania, the world's largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera, which formed when an immense volcano erupted and collapsed on itself 2–3 million years ago. The floor of the caldera is 600 metres (2,000 ft) below its rim and covers more than 260 square kilometres (100 sq mi).
Also called Indianite. A mineral from the lime-rich end of the plagioclase group of minerals. Anorthites are usually silicates of calcium and aluminium occurring in some basic igneous rocks, typically those produced by the contact metamorphism of impure calcareous sediments. anticline An arched fold in which the layers usually dip away from the fold axis. Contrast syncline. aphanic Having the ...
Caldera – Cauldron-like volcanic feature formed by the emptying of a magma chamber; Cinder cone – Steep hill of pyroclastic fragments around a volcanic vent; Complex volcano – Landform of more than one related volcanic centre; Cryptodome – Roughly circular protrusion from slowly extruded viscous volcanic lava
Also narrow. A land or water passage that is confined or restricted by its narrow breadth, often a strait or a water gap. nation A stable community of people formed on the basis of a common geographic territory, language, economy, ethnicity, or psychological make-up as manifested in a common culture. national mapping agency A governmental agency which manages, produces, and publishes ...
The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Caldera (Caldera album), 1976; Caldera (Sam Rivers album), 2022; Caldera, a 2012 animated short film; Caldera, a city in the video game Red Steel 2; Caldera, an island in the video game Call of Duty: Warzone; Caldera, a town/fortress in the video game Risen 2: Dark Waters; Dr. Caldera, a character in Better Call Saul