单词 | caldera |
释义 | calderan. Geology. A deep cauldron-like cavity on the summit of an extinct volcano. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > crater mouth1604 crater1613 pit-crater1862 caldera1865 maar1895 1865 C. Lyell Elem. Geol. (ed. 6) 632 Enlarged afterwards into a caldera. 1875 H. Watts Dict. Chem.: 2nd Suppl. 553 [In] the valley of Furnas..the soil is now perforated by a number of geysers. The three largest and most active of these are called ‘caldeiras’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1865 |
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