Sentence examples for caldera from inspiring English sources
noun
A large crater formed by a volcanic explosion or by collapse of the cone of a volcano.
Santorini's volcanic crater, the caldera, is one of the Greek islands' iconic views, and it is a 10-minute walk from this quiet hotel.
Still, I managed to win her back on our last night, when we stayed up way past our bedtime and walked along a cobbled street full of shops selling gold, before turning a corner on to a view of the caldera that is said to have swallowed Atlantis.
The results recall the action paintings of Jackson Pollock a major inspiration for Yoshihara and his disciples as well as other members of the New York school, such as Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning.But Shiraga pumps up the volume, turning Pollock's ethereal drips or Kline's slashing brushwork into cosmic geological formations that writhe and bubble as if extruded from a volcanic caldera.
In terms of the volume of rock the eruption of the volcanic caldera at Taupo, in New Zealand, 26,500 years ago, was well over ten times the size of Tambora; that of Toba, in Indonesia, 75,000 years ago was almost 100 times larger than the 1815 blast.
Between about 600,000 and 350,000 years ago, the western portion of the park's present area was occupied by Mount Tehama, a stratovolcano that exploded and created a caldera some 3 miles (5 km) wide.
Some caldera basins evolved with gently sloping sides, however, due to the deposition of material from a series of explosions and a gentler collapse of the structure.
The rim of Elgon's caldera is approximately 5 miles (8 km) in diameter and contains several peaks, of which Wagagai, at 14,178 feet, is the highest.
The IMF, fed up, is urging the government to get selling fast, but it has dragged its feet on other IMF recommendations, and President Rafael Caldera has resisted the pressure this time.
President Rafael Caldera plans to present his proposal to the annual Ibero-(Latin)American summit in Caracas in November.
And in December 1998, when a presidential election is next due, antipathy may turn into hard fact: a non-party president.The present incumbent, Rafael Caldera, broke away from his party, COPEI, in 1993 and put together a coalition of small, disparate groups to win power.
When his boss, President Rafael Caldera, reached a loan agreement with the IMF over a year ago, Mr Petkoff was given the task of sacking many of the country's 1.3m public-sector workers.
