floor of a crater

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• Crater Glacier — The Crater Glacier from the north in October 2006 Type Mountain glacier …   Wikipedia

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• crater — crateral, craterous, adj. craterlike, adj. /kray teuhr/, n., gen. Crateris /kray tear is/ for 9, v. n. 1. the cup shaped depression or cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano. 2. Also called… …   Universalium

• crater — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep, gaping, huge, large ▪ The blast blew a gaping crater in the road. ▪ shallow, small ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• Crater Lake — a lake in the crater of an extinct volcano in SW Oregon, in Crater Lake National Park. 20 sq. mi. (52 sq. km); 1996 ft. (608 m) deep. * * * Lake, Cascade Range, southwestern Oregon, U.S. The lake is in a huge volcanic caldera 6 mi (10 km) in… …   Universalium

• crater lake — a body of water occupying a roughly circular, steep sided volcanic crater or caldera. [1875 80] * * * Lake, Cascade Range, southwestern Oregon, U.S. The lake is in a huge volcanic caldera 6 mi (10 km) in diameter and 1,932 ft (589 m) deep. It is… …   Universalium

• Shoemaker (lunar crater) — lunar crater data latitude=88.1 N or S=S longitude=44.9 E or W=E diameter=50.9 km depth= Unknown colong=342 eponym=Eugene ShoemakerShoemaker is a lunar crater that is located near the southern pole of the Moon, within a half crater diameter of… …   Wikipedia

• Impact crater — The prominent impact crater Tycho on the Moon. In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body. In most common usage,… …   Wikipedia