crater

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Crater denotes:

circular, shallowly recessed surface structures on the earth:

  • Volcanic crater , the deepening in volcanoes from which magma emerges or has emerged
  • Explosion crater , a mostly funnel-shaped depression in the earth's surface
  • Sinter crater , a wall created by mineral deposits around a spring
  • Erosion crater or Makeshi, depressions caused by erosion (Negev desert and Sinai)

circular, shallowly recessed surface structures on planetary celestial bodies:

further circular, shallowly recessed surface structures:


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