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the volcano that ate itself and left a crater the size of a county
means A large crater formed when a volcano collapses into its emptied magma chamber, often after a massive eruption.
from From Spanish 'caldera,' meaning 'cauldron' or 'cooking pot,' which traces back to Late Latin 'caldaria' (a pot for heating water), from Latin 'calidus' (warm, hot) — the same heat-root behind 'cauldron' and 'scald.' Spanish and Portuguese explorers and geologists applied the word to these vast volcanic basins because they looked, fittingly, like the world's biggest boiling pots.
- birth
- forms when an emptied magma chamber collapses inward
- yellowstone
- the whole park sits inside one
- scale
- some span over 60 miles across
- crater lake
- a flooded caldera, deepest lake in America
- supervolcano
- the largest eruptions all leave calderas
yellowstone caldera — massive volcanic crater in wyoming, usa, erupted 640,000 years ago covering 1,500 square miles
lake toba caldera — sumatra, indonesia, site of supervolcano eruption 74,000 years ago, largest eruption in 25 million years
crater lake caldera — oregon, usa, formed 7,700 years ago from mount mazama collapse, deepest lake in north america
santorini caldera — greek island, erupted ~1600 bce destroying minoan civilization, still active with submarine volcano