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If you are talking about the large crater created after a volcano errupts, then it would be a caldera. They are formed after the magma chamber is emptied, when the cone of the volcano collapses to fill the empty space.

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a colapsed volcano cone is called a CALDERA. I found it in the Encyclopaedia Britannica .

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The Santorini caldera is a collapsed volcanic cone.

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Such a structure is called a caldera.

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Cinder Cone

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