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Mount Mazama's eruption timeline, an example of caldera formation. A caldera (/ k ɔː l ˈ d ɛr ə, k æ l-/ [1] kawl-DERR-ə, kal-) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. An eruption that ejects large volumes of magma over a short period of time can cause significant ...
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).
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
For even more things-you-never-knew-you-needed-to-know trivia knowledge, be sure to jot down all 20 of the hardest words to spell in the English language. The post 26 Palindrome Examples: Words ...
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 ...
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Kaldereta or caldereta [1] [2] is a goat meat [3] stew from the Philippines.Variations of the dish use beef, [4] chicken, [5] or pork. Commonly, the goat meat is stewed with vegetables and liver paste.
Famous examples from Iceland are the ice cauldrons within the Katla caldera. Katla is an important caldera and central volcano situated under the Mýrdalsjökull glacier cap in the southern part of Iceland's East Volcanic Zone . 150–200 eruptions during Holocene have been attributed to Katla, and 17 of these happened since Settlement of ...