The technical term for Yellowstone's supervolcano is "caldera," a Spanish word meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
In the center of the caldera was the classic mini-cone - the caldera was completely dry. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The common sort is employed for hedging and called caldera by Europeans in many parts of. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
We visited a collapsed volcanic caldera which is now a bay. From Wordnik.com. [More panorama experimentation...] Reference
"caldera" (volcano crater) measuring approximately 20km x 40km. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
The most explosive type of volcano is the caldera. From Wordnik.com. [Volcano] Reference
They rode back across the upper end of the caldera. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
The water is boiling for miles out into the caldera. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The caldera of Ngorongoro is vast but much weathered. From Wordnik.com. [Teide National Park, Spain] Reference
Figure 6: Map of the location of the Yellowstone caldera. From Wordnik.com. [Volcano] Reference
Then the truck came back up the caldera with the lights off. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Over time the caldera flooded, forming the bay known as Port Foster. From Wordnik.com. [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference
But there were no caldera crowns; they rose to simple rounded crests. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
It fills a massive volcanic caldera that last erupted about 1,800 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate forests] Reference
The erosion caldera of the Tweed River Volcano is one of the world's largest. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Australian temperate forests] Reference
He was half way back up the caldera to his truck when something made him stop. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Ngorongoro is the largest intact, inactive and unflooded caldera in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania] Reference
Umlaut floated off the rim of the caldera and sailed down toward the fiery lava. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
The spotlight came on again at the head of the caldera and moved across the ridge. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
The caldera last had a full-blown, catastrophic explosion about 640,000 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists find it difficult to predict volcano behavior] Reference
He looked across the caldera toward the low range of rock on the eastern perimeter. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
He looked out down the track south across the caldera back the way the truck had come. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
I had watched the Muse carefully as she flew us across the caldera lake the other day. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
“Come to the near side of the caldera lake any time in the next hour,” says the robot. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
They rode down into the caldera carrying the Winchesters upright before them in the saddlebow. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Next morning we enter into perhaps the largest active volcanic caldera in the world, at Deception Island. From Wordnik.com. [Lea Lane: Solo to Antarctica: Bottom of the World! (Part 3)] Reference
Earthquake swarms within the Yellowstone caldera are typical, with magnitudes occasionally ranging above 4.0. From Wordnik.com. [Yellowstone Lake Earthquake Swarm Summary as of 8 January 2009] Reference
This formation, the Mount Warning erosion caldera, is one of the major examples of this landform in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, Australia] Reference
Monitoring super-volcanoes: geophysical and geochemical signals at Yellowstone and other large caldera systems. From Wordnik.com. [Yellowstone Lake Earthquake Swarm Summary as of 8 January 2009] Reference
By the time he got to the rocks the truck was halfway down the caldera, the lights bobbing over the bad ground. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
Interestingly, the 1985 swarm was close in time to the change from caldera uplift to subsidence (see Figure 1). From Wordnik.com. [Yellowstone Earthquake Swarms] Reference
One of the planet's largest volcanoes is the huge caldera that feeds the hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists find it difficult to predict volcano behavior] Reference
The top of the butte is rough white rock, presumably compressed ash from one of the Yellowstone caldera eruptions. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Next in line is Rapa Island, an ancient volcanic caldera open on the east side that rises to an elevation of 633 m. From Wordnik.com. [Tubuai tropical moist forests] Reference
But he told me to return and meet him by the caldera lake in an hour and I still have more than thirty minutes left. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
The park lies in a caldera basin over a volcanic hot spot in the most seismically active region of the Rocky Mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Yellowstone National Park, United States] Reference
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