Crater Sentence Examples

The crater is divided by a wooded rock-wall.

This crater is still active.

Great streams of lava flowed from the crater in ancient times.

When it stopped, she twisted to see a crater at the end of the street near the river.

To the south-east of the lake is the Monte Nuovo, a volcanic hill upheaved in 1538, with a deep extinct crater in the centre.

Brady started around the crater towards the southern route.

It is an old volcanic crater, nearly 2 m.

The crater is densely overgrown with oaks and beeches which harbour wild boars and wolves.

In both of these the crater form is very clearly marked.

Frustrated, he sent Dan a rally call and returned to the crater.

Eruption in 1905, when the main crater was enlarged to a length of 3000 ft.

The stunning pink flamingo is also resident at the Crater.

Guests interested in visiting the Crater of Diamonds State Park can do so every day of the year except Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, and New Year's Day.

Hundreds of diamonds are found at the Crater of Diamonds State Park each year, and the experience is so unique to the state that a faceted diamond is prominently displayed on the state's quarter.

As it continues up the side of the crater, it offers numerous scenic spots to jump out and take a photograph.

Haleakala National Park is home to the Haleakala Crater, the largest dormant volcano in the world.

As the Hellmouth was destroyed once and for all, Sunnydale collapsed into the crater.

The rim of the crater is reached at an elevation of about 17,500 ft.

A detailed description of the volcano was published by the Mexican geological survey in 1895 according to which the crater is elliptical in form, 2008 by 1312 ft.,, and has a depth of 1657 ft.

The steep, ragged walls of the crater show a great variety of colours, intensified by the light from the deep blue sky above.

Four miles to the north is the Lacus Palicorum, a small lake in a crater, which still sends up carbonic acid gas.

The top of the heads of the images is cut flat to receive round crowns made of a reddish vesicular tuff found at a crater about 8 m.

A number of these crowns still lie at the crater apparently ready for removal, some of the largest being over 10 ft.

The name is derived from imba, fish, and bura, mother, and is said to have originated from the quantities of a fish called " prenadilla " (Pimelodus cyclopum) discharged from its crater during one of its eruptions - a phenomenon which, after a searching investigation, was discredited by Wagner.

Its summit comprises a group of eight snow-clad peaks, and its crater is surrounded by a steep and jagged wall of rocks.

Chamalari, which the Spaniards called El Corazon from its heartshaped appearance, is similarly destitute of a crater.

Its summit comprises three groups of rocky peaks, of which the most westerly, Rucu-Pichincha (Old Pichincha), contains the crater, a funnelshaped basin 2460 ft.

Bouger and La Condamine were the first to reach its brink in 1742, after which Humboldt made the ascent in 1802, Boussingault and Hall in 1831, Garcia Moreno and Sebastian Wisse in 1844 and 1845 (descending into the crater for the first time), Garcia Moreno and Jameson in 1857, Farrand and Hassaurek in 1862, Orton in 1867, and Whymper in 1880.

Farrand spent more than a week in the crater trying to get some good photographic views, and Orton has given a graphic description of his experiences in the same place.

The last happily broke down the western side of the crater, which, it is believed, will ensure the city against harm in any subsequent eruption.

Sulphur is said to be found at Herat, dug from the soil in small fragments, but the chief supply comes from the Hazara country and from Pirkisri, on the confines of Seistan, where there would seem to be a crater, or fumarole.

Its chief crest forms an elongated ring and encloses a crater over half a mile in diameter and with walls 350 ft.

Lake Taal, a few miles south-west of Laguna de Bay, occupies the crater of a great volcano.

No crater now exists at the summit of either, but well-formed parasitic cones occur upon their flanks.

It has been considered a crater lake; but this is not the case.

After a long repose Ometepe also burst into renewed activity on the 19th of June 1883, when the lavas from a new crater began to overflow and continued for seven days to spread in various directions over the whole island.

The Talitridae, better known as sandhoppers, can forgo the briny shore and content themselves with the damp foliage of inland forests or casual humidity in the crater of an extinct volcano.

Empedocles, according to one story, was one midnight, after a feast held in his honour, called away in a blaze of glory to the gods; according to another, he had only thrown himself into the crater of Etna, in the hope that men, finding no traces of his end, would suppose him translated to heaven.

To the northeast of the town is the Solfatura, a half extinct volcano crater, in which sulphurous gases are exhaled.

At the south-east corner the rim of the crater is, as it were, breached by a deep crevasse through which the Abai escapes, and here develops a great semicircular bend like that of the Takazze, but in the reverse direction - east, south and north-west - down to the plains of Sennar, where it takes the name of Bahr-el-Azrak or Blue Nile.

A volcanic formation is apparent in Lontor, a sickleshaped island which, with Neira and Gunong Api, forms part of the circle of a crater.

Lake Masaya occupies an extinct crater; the isolated volcano of Masaya (3000 ft.) on the opposite side of the lake was active at the time of the conquest of Nicaragua in 1522, and the conquerors, thinking the lava they saw was gold, had themselves lowered into the crater at the risk of their lives.

Green Mountain, the principal elevation, is a huge elliptical crater, rising 2820 ft.

The gems are found in a matrix of black slate in what appears to be the crater of a volcano, and are mined in a very crude manner.

Near the northwestern boundary of Klamath county is the famous Crater Lake, whose surface is 6239 ft.

A few persons reside on the little island Allegranza, a mass of lava and cinders ejected at various times from a now extinct volcano, the crater of which has still a well-defined edge.

His next novel was The Crater, or Vulcan's Peak (1847), in which he attempted to introduce supernatural machinery with indifferent success; and this was succeeded by Oak Openings and Jack Tier (1848), the latter a curious rifacimento 'of' The Red Rover; by The Sea Lions (1849); and finally by The Ways of the Hour (1850), another novel with a purpose, and his last book.

The group of lakes called Fiskiviitn (or Veidivotn), which lie in a desolate region to the west of Vatnajokull, consist for the most part of crater lakes.

These crater chains are both very common and often very long.

Sometimes, however, the lava-streams are vomited straight out of gigantic fissures in the earth without any crater being formed.

The crater chain of Laki has only been in eruption once in historic times, namely, the violent and disastrous outbreak of 1783.

These lava streams, which are of a doleritic character, flowed before the Glacial age, or during its continuance, out of lava cones with gigantic crater openings, such as may be seen at the present day.

The only determination that can be made on the moon is that of the height above some neighbouring hollow, crater or plain.

The crater from which the volcanic rocks were outpoured probably lies off the Faeroe Bank some distance to the south-west of Siiderd.

The crater of the central cone contains a fresh-water lake about 150 yds.

This and other crater lakes are said never to be frozen over.

In the north-east is a larger lake, Lake Antoine, also occupying a crater, but it lies almost at the sea level.

The town is built on the eastern coast, in what is probably the crater of an extinct volcano, and is surrounded by precipitous rocks that form an admirable natural defence.

Modern science has converted "Steamer Point" into a seemingly impregnable position, the peninsula which the "Point" forms to the whole crater being cut off by a fortified line which runs from north to south, just to the east of the coal wharfs.

Round the north-eastern shore of the lake are numerous crater lakes, many salt, the most remarkable being that of Katwe.

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About 60 million cubic meters of dome and crater wall traveled to the south as a debris avalanche and pyroclastic density currents.

The collapsed surface of the volcano formed a wide caldera, or crater of sorts, spanning many miles.

The crater is the largest unbroken ancient caldera in the world.

He stood with his hands clasped behind his back, staring across the crater.

The first image shows a heavily cratered highland terrain with very long shadows cast by cratered highland terrain with very long shadows cast by crater rims.

Our feet sounded hollow on the thin plug filling the huge crater.

The flooded crater of the southernmost island has a resident population of unnaturally large crocodiles.

Or maybe walk up to the crest of Gran Canaria's largest volcanic crater with a view to the south coast.

He is honored by having a large lunar crater named after him.

Its unique harbor was once an inland lake, in an extinct volcanic crater.

Mount Macdonald is a shallow crater about ten miles across.

The horrific blast left a huge crater in the main Belfast to Dublin road.

This is the world's largest and oldest meteorite impact crater.

They decide to visit a meteor crater, where their car fails to start leaving them stranded in the middle of the Australian outback.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

Initial indications are that the emission was caused by collapse at the summit crater.

Aerial photography taken on 21 July revealed than an external lava dome was not visible at the bottom of the crater.

We make a very early start from here for the long climb up scree to Gilman's Point on the Crater Rim.

The rich birdlife includes flamingoes which are attracted by the soda content in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

The area in the vast flatland of the Gusev Crater where Spirit landed this weekend will be called the Columbia Memorial Station.

Today in the crater many active fumaroles can be observed.

He was shirtless, revealing a hickey the size of Crater Lake just above his right nipple.

Studies on the beads suggested they were formed in an asteroid impact, but no corresponding crater was found.

The 10-mile wide crater lake between them, where the heart of the volcano had been ripped out, filled up with sea water.

Some are formed by solidifying lava that do not form a crater, leaving a " puy " .

One porter was burnt by volcanic lava crossing the crater.

It illustrates a well-known optical illusion; the crater looks like a hill when the photo is upside-down.

Once the dust has settled, other orbiters will search for the crater left behind â the latest addition to the battered lunar surface.

Thousands of poppy petals were scattered into a crater at the site.

Game viewing vehicles descend the steep crater wall every morning and spend the day on grass plains that are teeming with animals.

Rae commanded a platoon in ' C ' Company holding the line at Hooge Crater.

Stella and Anita become sexually rapacious and the next morning Ken and Dave's bodies are discovered beside the now empty meteorite crater.

Next up was the Lochnager crater, created when the British tunneled under the german redoubt and detonated 60,000 lbs of explosives.

The crater is home to enormous quantities of wild game and birds, including the rare black rhinoceros.

Saturday 13 April A superb drive took us along the crater rim.

The mosaic design is based upon a crater or wine mixing bowl that sits within a central roundel.

A trek up a well trodden path through lush thick vegetation brings you to the top of the crater.

El Valle Situated in the crater of an extinct volcano, El Valle is famous for its Sunday Indian craft market.

Along the rim of the crater, pinnacles formed by lava flow reach upward.

In the meantime Sergeant Benford of 'A ' Squadron had cleared some roadblocks on the way into Crater.

A lizard rustles in the undergrowth around the rim of the massive crater.

Evidence of recent seepage of underground water on a crater rim The evidence of freely flowing water early in Mars ' history is dramatic.

The cloud quickly enveloped houses within the crater that were 120 meters above the shoreline of the lake.

Lahars originating from the summit crater lake on Mt.

Float silently past rafts of penguins or cruise inside a sunken volcanic crater.

The Spaceship was hidden in the crater of an extinct volcano on a remote island.

He makes a crater every time he lands from a huge jump, flings cars and tanks at helicopters, leaps over buildings, and leaves giant claw marks everywhere he climbs.

On the other hand, if the wick is too small, you'll get a sort of crater down the center of your candle and the outside part won't even melt.

An uncut Arkansas diamond can be used for many different types of diamond jewelry and makes an impressive statement when couples mention that it's a diamond they dug themselves at the Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro.

The Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas is the only diamond mine in the world open to the public.

Discovering an uncut Arkansas diamond at the Crater of Diamonds park can be as easy as walking through the field and finding a surface stone, but most guests prefer to dig for their treasures.

A stream of lava issued in 1198 from the crater of the Solfatara, which still continues to exhale steam and noxious gases; the Lava dell' Arso came out of the N.E.

Since this great convulsion, which emptied the crater, Vesuvius is never again relapsed into a condition of total quiescence.

Terraces and buttresses extend and ramify in all directions from the central crater, so that the giant volcano and its surrounding heights form a mountain country (notable for its innumerable cascades and dense forests) the size of Montenegro.

The close connexion of Hephaestus with Lemnos and especially with its mountain Mosychlus has been explained by the supposed existence of a volcano; but no crater or other sign of volcanic agency is now apparent, and the "Lemnian fire" - a phenomenon attributed to Hephaestus - may have been due to natural gas (see LeMNos).

The tower was in pieces, the building at its base a gaping crater.

They'd circled it twice, but the blast had scorched dirt, trees, and any traces of Lana over a hundred meters in every direction beyond the crater.

Half an hour later, the chopper descended near the crater.

He'd make a crater of the castle and the surrounding countryside!

The central core, which consists of several steep pyramids, is that of a very denuded old volcano, which when its crater was complete may have reached 2000 ft.

The lakes of Albano and Nemi were probably formed by volcanic explosions at the margin of the great crater; though a view has also been expressed that the basins are the result of subsidence.

The archipelago is of volcanic formation, Tamara and Factory islands forming part of a ruined crater, with Crawford Island as the cone.

The continuation of the same wall round its southern half has been in great measure obliterated by the operations of the modern vent, which has built a younger cone upon it, and is gradually filling up the hollow of the prehistoric crater.

Vast p PRINTED If ouds of dust and stones, blown out of the crater and funnel of ie volcano, were hurled into the air and carried for hundreds miles, the finer particles falling to the earth even.

The configuration seems to point to a colossal crater under the ocean, and many of the earthquakes which visit Japan appear to have their origin in this submarire region.

On the south Fuji slopes unbroken to the sea, but on the other three sides the plain from which it rises is surrounded by mountains, among which, on the north and west, a series of most picturesque lakes has been formed in consequence of the rivers having been dammed by ashes ejected from Fujis crater.

But experience in other parts of Japan shows that a long quiescent crater may at any moment burst into disastrous activity.

Forms southern wall of a large ancient crater now occupied by a lake (Shikotsu).

Has both a summit and a lateral crater, which are apparently connected and perpetually emitting steam.

Grass grows, however, to the very edges of the crater.

There is a double crater, the outer being almost complete.

The diameter ox the outer crater, within which rises the modern cone to a height of 500 ft.

The present cone is the third, portions of two concentric crater rings remaining.

It is generally considered to have been formed by a volcanic explosion at the margin of the great crater of the Albanus Mons; it has the shape of a crater, the banks of which are over 400 ft.

The geography of the Western province includes many interesting features, the in many ways peculiar Albert Nyanza (q.v.), the great snowy range of Ruwenzori (q.v.), the dense Semliki, Budonga, Mpanga and Bunyaraguru forests, the salt lakes and salt springs of Unyoro and western Toro, the innumerable and singularly beautiful crater lakes of Toro and Ankole, the volcanic region of Mfumbiro (where active and extinct volcanoes rise in great cones to altitudes of from 11,000 to nearly 15,000 ft.), and the healthy plateaus of Ankole, which are in a lesser degree analogous in climate and position, and the Nandi plateau on the east of Victoria Nyanza.

It occupies a crater more than 1000 ft.

The most noteworthy pieces are a crater richly ornamented with arabesques and figures of children, a platter with a representation of Minerva, another with one of the boy Hercules and another with one of Cybele.

Hawaii contains the celebrated active crater of Kilauea.

Vordate, Molu and south-eastern Yamdena have a maximum height of 820 ft.; the rest are low and flat, except Laibobar, apparently a volcanic islet on the west, which has an extinct crater 2000 ft.

Since the Rev. William Ellis and a party of American missionaries first made the volcano known to the civilized ' Among the minqr phenomena of Hawaiian volcanoes are the delicate glassy fibres called Pele's hair by the Hawaiians, which are spun by the wind from the rising and falling drops of liquid lava, and blown over the edge or into the crevices of the crater.

In the eruptions of 1823, 1832, 1840 and 1868 the floor of the crater rose on the eve of an eruption and then sank, sometimes hundreds of feet, with the discharge of lava; but since 1868 (in 1879, 1886, 1891, 1894 and 1907; and once, before 1868, in 1855) this action has been confined to Halemaumau and such other pits as at the time existed.

Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.

This crater is 7.48 m.

From the floor of the crater rise sixteen well-preserved cinder-cones, which range from more than 400 ft.

That the mountainous mass of western Maui is much older is shown by the destruction of its crater, by its sharp ridges and by deeply eroded gorges or valleys.

Near the centre of the park is Mud Caldron, a circular crater about 40 ft.

The two main areas near Rome are formed by the group of craters on the north (Bracciano, Bolsena, &c.) and the Alban Hills on the south, the latter consisting of one great crater with a base about 12 m.

The Alban Mount (Monte Cavo) is almost the highest point on the rim of the inner crater, while Mount Algidus and Tusculum are on the outer ring wall of the larger (earlier) crater.

The drainage channels which were dug for the various crater lakes in the neighbourhood of Rome are also interesting in this regard.

That of the Alban Lake is the most famous; but all the other crater lakes are similarly provided.

Its south-west portion, which is the deepest, was perhaps the original crater.

From the slope of the strata from one central point in the Val del Bue he further concluded that there once existed a second great crater of permanent eruption.

The only lake of any size is the Laacher See, the largest of the "maare" or extinct crater lakes of the Eifel.

It was soon found that each mine was in reality a huge vertical funnel or crater descending to an unknown depth, and filled with diamantiferous blue ground.

In place of all this, the visitor to Kimberley encounters at the edge of the town only a huge crater, silent and apparently deserted, with no visible sign of the great mining operations which are conducted nearly half a mile below the surface.

Figure 9, Plate I., shows the top of the De Beers' crater with basalt overlying the shale.

The meteoric iron of Arizona, some of which contains diamond, is actually found in and about a huge crater which is supposed by some to have been formed by an immense meteorite penetrating the earth's crust.

In the Siebengebirge the little crater of Roderberg, with its lavas and scoriae of leucite-basalt, is posterior to some of the Pleistocene river deposits.

The water from the melted snow forms a small lake at the bottom of the crater, from which it filters through fissures to the heated rocks below and thence escapes as steam or through other fissures to the mineral springs at the mountain's base.

Some observers report that steam is to be seen rising from fissures in the bottom of the crater, and all are united in speaking of the fumes of burning sulphur that rise from its depths.

In 1522 Francisco Montano made the ascent and had himself let down into the crater a depth of 400 or 500 ft.

Mokuaweoweo, on the flat top of Mauna Loa, is a pit crater with a floor 3.7 sq.

Next up was the Lochnager crater, created when the British tunneled under the German Redoubt and detonated 60,000 lbs of explosives.

Crater lakes are Telaga (lake) Budas, in the crater of the volcano of the same name in the south-east, and Telaga Warna, on the slopes of the Gede, famous for its beautiful tinting.

Within the widest crater there are the two small lakes of Monticchio and San Michele.

Some of the islands are built of volcanic rocks alone; such are Hongu-tonga and Hongu-hapai, which appear to be fragments of a single ancient crater, Tofua, Kao, Late, Metis, Amargua and Falcon Island.

He died on the 15th of May 913, one tradition saying he was struck by lightning, and another that he was thrown alive by the devil into the crater of Mount Etna.

It is upon the line of the rim of the inner crater of the great volcano, while Tusculum and Algidus Mons mark the edge of the earlier outer crater, which was about 7 m.

Its summit is frequently draped with snow, and its broken-down crater contains a lake.

The crater,situatedon the S.W.

Some one throws himself over a cataract or leaps into the crater of a volcano, and immediately a score or two follow.

It consists of the vast crater - some 10 m.

This precipice, known as Monte Somma, forms the wall of an ancient prehistoric crater of vastly greater size than that of the present volcano.

The present crater is remarkable for the absolute perpendicu larity of its walls, and has an immense depth from 600 to 800 ft.