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n. (context geology English) A lake that has formed in the caldera of a volcano.
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A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite, or in an artificial explosion caused by humans. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not made. Crater lakes covering active ( fumarolic) volcanic vents are sometimes known as volcanic lakes, and the water within them is often acidic, saturated with volcanic gases, and cloudy with a strong greenish color. For example, the crater lake of Kawah Ijen in Indonesia has a pH of under 0.5. Lakes located in dormant or extinct volcanoes tend to have fresh water, and the water clarity in such lakes can be exceptional due to the lack of inflowing streams and sediment.
Crater Lake is a mountain lake in the Elk Mountains, Pitkin County of the US State of Colorado. It lies just northeast of the Maroon Bells and just northwest of Pyramid Peak. The view of the striated Maroon Bells from Crater Lake and the view from nearby Maroon Lake are two of the most photographed mountain scenes in the United States.
Crater Category:Crater lakes Category:Landforms of Pitkin County, Colorado
Crater Lake may refer to:
- Crater lake, a general term
- Crater Lake, a lake in Oregon, United States
- Crater Lake (Philippines), a lake in Luzon, Philippines
- Crater Lake (Colorado), a lake in Elk Mountains of Colorado
- Crater Lake (Deathlands novel), a book
- Volcano Lake, a lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Crater Lake, a lake near Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, Australia
- Crater Lake (South Shetland Islands), a lake in Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Crater Lake is an alpine lake in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the White Cloud Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The lake is accessed from an old dirt road along Livingston Creek.
Crater Lake is just north of the Chinese Wall and is surrounded by several old mines.
Crater Lake is a volcanic crater, now filled with water, lying north-west of Mount Kirkwood on the south side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The descriptive name was given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959.
Usage examples of "crater lake".
But one afternoon at a kava party, out on one of the arc balconies overlooking Da Vinci's crater lake, she approached him-even more shy and stumbling than he was-so much so that he was forced into the very unusual position of trying to put someone else at ease, finishing sentences for her and the like.
A little way away from the range was a crater lake, the muddy liquid pooled in the shape of a cashew nut.
The quake had occurred at just about the time Selene should have been leaving Crater Lake, and the gorge was now half blocked with slides.
The wind lashed the waters of the crater lake far below and someone, possibly old Odin, pulled the plug out of the sky so that the rain fell in sheets and wind-driven curtains.
I said, pointing the paddle at the impact-crater lake and its assortment of flooded buildings.
There, framed by the window, was the malevolent, black shape of a second spider-ship, hovering over the far end of the crater lake.
I pointed out to Brenda that if Martin did make it to the coast of the crater lake island, he could probably survive indefinitely with his primitive skills, since it would be fairly easy for one man alone to stay away from the Plathys who occasionally passed through there.