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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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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoa colapsed volcano cone is called a CALDERA. I found it in the Encyclopaedia Britannica .
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∙ 10y agoThe Santorini caldera is a collapsed volcanic cone.
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∙ 11y agoSuch a structure is called a caldera.
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∙ 12y agoCinder Cone
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