Sentences with phrase «caldera now»

Our first campsite is usually on Isla Carmen, an extinct volcano with its caldera now level with the sea and filled by a giant salt pan.

An enormous volcano destroyed the island of Santorini four thousand years ago, causing most of it to collapse into a vast caldera now hidden beneath the Aegean Sea, leaving only a crescent - shaped strip of land visible.

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It's as if we had spent these endless grueling hours hiking a vertical volcanic summit to the cone, and now, just three steps from viewing the ring fault of the caldera, he says, «I'm gonna take a nap.

Their concern is based on three eruptions: a gigantic caldera - forming blast that occurred in the region 2.1 million years ago, another that followed 700,000 years later, and a third 700,000 years after that (which might mean that this old faithful is ready to blow right around now).

Ulun Danu is inside the caldera of the now extinct volcano Gunung Catur.

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I'm chagrined to report that I sailed across the site of the 1452 eruption in 1975, but did not recognize the Kuwae caldera's island remnants as such, as I was searching the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) for archaeological lithic sources, not palaeoclimate clues.