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Italian translation: caldera

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17:36 Aug 1, 2009
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Science - Geology
Additional field(s): Geography
English term or phrase: caldera
Definition from CENGAGE Learning:
A vast depression at the top of a volcanic cone, formed when an eruption substantially empties the reservoir of magma beneath the cone's summit. Eventually the summit collapses inward, creating a caldera. A caldera may be more than 15 kilometers in diameter and more than 1000 meters deep.

Example sentence(s):
  • Subsequent eruptions from the Long Valley magma chamber were confined within the caldera with extrusions of relatively hot (crystal-free) rhyolite 700,000 to 600,000 years ago as the caldera floor was upwarped to form the resurgent dome followed by extrusions of cooler, crystal-rich moat rhyolite at 200,000-year intervals (500,000, 300,000, and 100,000 years ago) in clockwise succession around the resurgent dome. USGS
  • Calderas tend to form after a series of large eruptions. Usually a new volcano starts to grow inside, eventually covering it. About.com: Geology
  • Over the course of several hundred years following the creation of the caldera, rain and snow filled the basin to a depth of 1,943 feet (592 meters). Crater Lake today is the nation’s deepest lake. Crater lake
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caldera
Definition:
caldera [cal-dè-ra] s.f.
• geol. Depressione circolare prodotta dallo sprofondamento della cima di un cono vulcanico

• sec. XVI
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Definition from Sabatini Coletti, Dizionario di Italiano:
caldera [cal-dè-ra] s.f.
• geol. Depressione circolare prodotta dallo sprofondamento della cima di un cono vulcanico

• sec. XVI

Example sentence(s):
  • La Caldera di Latera presenta un aspetto strutturale complesso dovuto alla sovrapposizione degli eventi vulcano-tettonici, con la presenza di direttrici strutturali ad andamento grossomodo appenninico ed antiappenninico. Per questo motivo la Caldera è articolata in diversi settori che hanno subito un'evoluzione vulcanica e tettonica diversificata - I complesso vulcanico di Latera  
  • L’area napoletana è caratterizzata dai vulcani attivi del complesso del Somma-Vesuvio e dei Campi Flegrei; quest’ultimo comprende la caldera flegrea e le isole di Procida ed Ischia, disposte, secondo un’orientazione NE-SW, a formare la Dorsale Flegreo-Ischitana. L’area napoletana offre quindi l’opportunità di studiare almeno due sistemi magmatici con caratteristiche strutturali (blocchi risorgenti, caldere, strato-vulcani) e petro-chimiche differenti (composizioni da alcali-trachitiche a trachitiche e trachi-basaltiche). - Ricerca Università degli Studi Roma Tre  
Carla Sordina
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