Sentence examples for pit craters from inspiring English sources

The east rift zone supports numerous pit craters ending in Makaopuhi, with a depth of 1,000 feet (300 metres).

The Kilauea Iki lava lake and other pit craters experience drain-back of lavas containing 49 52 wt% SiO2 (Swanson, 1972; Barker et al., 1998; Wallace and Anderson, 1998).

Many of these pit craters have been filled with water creating several crater lakes.

Other volcanic events elsewhere interacted with groundwater and magma creating numerous pit craters.

Flows within the caldera consist mostly of sheet flows pocketed by lava ponds and pit craters.

The summit's pit craters are named West Pit, East Pit, and Pele's Pit.

At the moment the churning lava simply comes and goes in the volcano's North Pit Crater but scientists believe the lake may eventually become long-lived.

The summit of the volcano consists of a crater area with an active fumarole field and an acidic lake which is replaced by an inner pit crater during Strombolian phases, where the activity is concentrated.

However, during the beginning of that year the apparent temperatures measured at the southern wall of the crater (hereby defined as South Area) reached values of about 600 °C, and those of the Central Pit (crater 1) had a drastic increase (up to ~ 400 °C) accompanied by the drying out of the crater lake (Fig. 7a, second image).

In the following months, the heat flux and the temperatures of the fumarole field of the South Area were rather stable, whereas those of the Central Pit (Crater 1) first fell below 200 °C, then fluctuated from 120° to 380 °C in April; it drops again below 200 °C during early July and since then it shows and increasing trend, above 400 °C.

A major feature within the caldera is Halemaumau Crater, a large pit crater and one of Kīlauea's most historically active eruption centers.