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The crater lake of Mount Rinjani, Indonesia Lake Yeak Laom, Cambodia Baengnokdam crater lake of Hanla Mountain in winter, South Korea A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed by explosive activity or a collapse during a volcanic eruption .
A volcanogenic lake is a lake formed as a result of volcanic activity. [1] They are generally a body of water inside an inactive volcanic crater ( crater lakes ) but can also be large volumes of molten lava within an active volcanic crater ( lava lakes ) and waterbodies constrained by lava flows, pyroclastic flows or lahars in valley systems. [ 2 ]
Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills an 8 by 11 km: 70.5 km 2 (27.2 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments. [5] The caldera, which contains the second largest lake in the country and is immediately east of the capital city, San Salvador , has a scalloped 100 m ...
(Democratic Republic of the Congo) Lava lake at Erta Ale Volcano, Ethiopia. The lava lake of Halemaʻumaʻu at Kīlauea, Hawaiʻi, United States). Lava lake in Marum crater, Ambrym, Vanuatu. Satellite picture showing the lava lake of Mount Erebus, Antarctica. Aerial view of a lava lake in Pu’u ’Ō’ō crater, east rift zone of Kīlauea ...
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The lake is shaped by deep escarpments which surround it and by three volcanoes on its southern flank. Lake Atitlan is further characterized by towns and villages of the Maya people. Volcán Tolimán is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the southern shores of Lago de Atitlán. The volcano has an elevation of 3,158 m.
Interior of Amboy Crater showing a lava lake and the distant breach in the cinder cone rim. Interior of Amboy Crater from near breach showing lava lakes. Amboy Crater is a dormant cinder cone volcano that rises above a 70-square-kilometer (27 sq mi) lava field in the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument.
Annotations based on: (2004). "The 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption, New Zealand: A review of the roles of volcanism and climate in the post‐eruptive sedimentary response".