Caldera
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A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. The ejection of large volumes of magma in a short time can upset the integrit
Valle Caldera, New Mexico
Oblique aerial photo of Nemrut Caldera, Van Lake, Eastern Turkey
Sollipulli Caldera, located in central Chile near the border with Argentina, filled with ice. The volcano is in the southern Andes Mountains within Chile's Parque Nacional Villarica.
Caldera of Mount Tambora
Krakatoa
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Krakatoa, also transcribed Krakatau, is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcanic island group comp
Caldera
…of cubic kilometers of material in a single event, it can cause catastrophic environmental effects. Even small caldera-forming eruptions, such as Krakatoa in 1883 or Mount Pinatubo in 1991, may result in significant local destruction and a noticeable drop in temperature around the world. Large calderas…
A lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
In 2004, an astronomer suggested that the blood-red sky shown in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream depicts the sky over Norway after the eruption.
Krakatoa featured in 100-rupiah banknote
Simon Winchester maintains that the 1680 eruption was depicted in this eighteenth-century Dutch etching.