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A Crater is a bowl shaped depression in the Earth's surface. It could be made by an impacting meteor, an underground land collapse, or perhaps may be found at the top of a volcano [= collapse].

A Caldera is of volcanic origin, (but without a noticeable volcanic cone), where there was an eruption after which the magma chamber collapsed and is now filled in. Yellowstone is one notable example, and the Taupo Lake another.

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A basin-shaped volcanic depression?

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When is caldera form?

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