Definitions for Caldera
kælˈdɛr ə, kɔl-calder·a

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. calderanoun

   a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression

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1. calderanoun

   A large crater formed by a volcanic explosion or by collapse of the cone of a volcano.

2. Etymology: From caldera, from caldaria.

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1. Caldera

   A caldera (English pronunciation: /kɔːlˈdɛrə, kæl-/ kawl-DERR-ə, kal-) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is gone. The ground surface then collapses into the emptied or partially emptied magma chamber, leaving a large depression at the surface (from one to dozens of kilometers in diameter). Although sometimes described as a crater, the feature is actually a type of sinkhole, as it is formed through subsidence and collapse rather than an explosion or impact. Compared to the thousands of volcanic eruptions that occur each century, the formation of a caldera is a rare event, occurring only a few times per century. Only seven caldera-forming collapses are known to have occurred between 1911 and 2016. More recently, a caldera collapse occurred at Kīlauea, Hawaii in 2018.

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1. caldera

   A caldera is a large, usually circular depression at the summit of a volcano, formed when magma is withdrawn or erupted from a shallow underground magma reservoir. It is often caused by a volcanic explosion or collapse of the volcano's cone. Calderas are different from craters, which are smaller, created by meteorite impact, or by explosions localized to the volcano's summit.

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1. Caldera

   A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption. They are sometimes confused with volcanic craters. The word comes from Spanish caldera, and this from Latin CALDARIA, meaning "cooking pot". In some texts the English term cauldron is also used. In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Las Cañadas caldera of Teide on Tenerife, and the Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma, both in the Canary Islands. When he published his memoirs he introduced the term caldera into the geological vocabulary.

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1. CALDERA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Caldera is ranked #4542 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Caldera surname appeared 7,802 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Caldera.
   
   89.3% or 6,969 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   8.8% or 692 total occurrences were White.
   0.6% or 52 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.5% or 46 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.2% or 22 total occurrences were Black.
   0.2% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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1. • Volcanic Crater

How to pronounce Caldera?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Caldera in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Caldera in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Caldera in a Sentence

1. Kelsi Singer:

   The way these features look is very different than any volcanoes across the solar system, either icy examples or rocky volcanoes, they formed as mountains, but there is no caldera at the top, and they have large bumps all over them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Caldera
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Caldera
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Caldera
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html