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A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption (an explosion which occurs when groundwater comes into contact with hot lava or magma). [1]

165 relations: Aggradation, Ahrweiler (district), Alban Hills, Amhara Region, Ardèche, Arizona, Auckland, Auckland volcanic field, Bad Bertrich, Basalt, Battle Ground Lake State Park, Bayuda Desert, Bayuda volcanic field, Bering Sea, Bettenfeld, Big Hole, Bolivia, Boos, Mayen-Koblenz, Booser Doppelmaar, British Columbia, Caldera, Campo de Calatrava Volcanic Field, Canada, Carbon dioxide, Carrán-Los Venados, Cerro Overo, Cerro Tujle, Chaîne des Puys, Chile, Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster), Crater lake, Crystal, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Daun, Germany, Dürres Maar, Death Valley National Park, Deudesfeld, Diameter, Diatreme, Dreis-Brück, Dreiser Weiher, Duppach, Eckfeld, Eckfelder Maar, Eichholzmaar, Eifel, El Elegante Crater, El Paso, Texas, Erosion, Ethiopia, ..., Explosion, Fort Rock-Christmas Lake Valley Basin, Fossil, Gemündener Maar, Geographic coordinate system, George Julius Poulett Scrope, Germany, Gerolstein, Gillenfeld, Golan Heights, Groundwater, Guanajuato, Hectare, Hitsche Maar, Hole-in-the-Ground, Holzmaar, Immerath, Rhineland-Palatinate, Immerather Maar, Izu Islands, Jayu Quta (Ladislao Cabrera), Kamchatka Peninsula, Kelberg, Kilbourne Hole, Kimberlite, Kirishima, Kagoshima, Kirishima-Yaku National Park, Kyushu, Laacher See, Laguna (province), Lake Albano, Lake Nyos, Lake Pupuke, Lake Ram, Lava, Limestone, Los Baños, Laguna, Luzon, Magma, Maria Laach Abbey, Meerfeld, Meerfelder Maar, Messel, Messel pit, Meteor Crater, Metre, Mexico, Michoacán, Middle Low German, Miocene, Miyake-jima, Mosbrucher Weiher, Moselle Franconian dialects, Mount Gambier (volcano), Mount Schank, Mount Sempu, Mount Taylor (New Mexico), New Mexico, Newer Volcanics Province, Niederdürenbach, Nunivak Island, Oberwiesenthal, Oku Volcanic Field, Ore Mountains, Oregon, Pali-Aike volcanic field, Papenkaule, Papua New Guinea, Patagonia, Permafrost, Phreatomagmatic eruption, Potrillo volcanic field, Precipitation, Province of Ciudad Real, Pulvermaar, Reuth, Rhineland-Palatinate, Salt lake, Sandstone, Santorini, Schalkenmehren, Schalkenmehrener Maar, Sebastian Münster, Sedimentation, Seward Peninsula, Shale, Siberia, Sonoran Desert, South Australia, Stadtkyll, Steffeln, Stratovolcano, Strotzbüsch, Sudan, Swabian Jura, Takapuna, Ubehebe Crater, Ukinrek Maars, Ulmen, Ulmener Maar, Victoria (Australia), Volcanic cone, Volcanic crater, Volcanic Eifel, Volcanic pipe, Volcanic rock, Wall rock, Walsdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, Washington (state), Weinfelder Maar, Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, White Rock, New Mexico, Windsborn Crater Lake, Wollmerath, Yakushima, Zengena Lake, Zuni Salt Lake. Expand index (115 more) »

Aggradation

Aggradation (or alluviation) is the term used in geology for the increase in land elevation, typically in a river system, due to the deposition of sediment.

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Ahrweiler (district)

Ahrweiler is a district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Alban Hills

The Alban Hills are the site of a quiescent volcanic complex in Italy, located southeast of Rome and about north of Anzio.

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Amhara Region

Amhara (Amharic: አማራ) is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia, containing the homeland of the Amhara people.

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Ardèche

Ardèche (Occitan and Arpitan: Ardecha) is a département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central France.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Auckland volcanic field

The Auckland volcanic field is an area of monogenetic volcanoes covered by much of the metropolitan area of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, located in the North Island.

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Bad Bertrich

Bad Bertrich is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

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Battle Ground Lake State Park

Battle Ground Lake State Park is a publicly owned recreation area located approximately northeast of the city of Battle Ground, Washington.

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Bayuda Desert

The Bayuda Desert, located at, is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 100,000 km² of NE Sudan north of Omdurman and south of Korti, embraced by the great bend of the Nile in the N, E and S and limited by the Wadi Muqaddam in the W. The north to south aligned Wadi Abu Dom divides the Bayuda Desert into the eastern Bayuda Volcanic Field and the western ochre-coloured sand-sheets scattered with rocky outcrop.

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Bayuda volcanic field

Bayuda volcanic field (also spelled Bayiuda) is a volcanic field in Sudan, within the Bayuda Desert.

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Bering Sea

The Bering Sea (r) is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean.

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Bettenfeld

Bettenfeld is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Big Hole

The Big Hole, Open Mine, Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine (Groot Gat) is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and claimed to be the largest hole excavated by hand, although this claim is disputed.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Boos, Mayen-Koblenz

Boos is a municipality in the county of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany.

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Booser Doppelmaar

The Booser Doppelmaar ("Double Maar of Boos") comprises two maars that have silted up and, today, form shallow depressions in the countryside.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like depression that forms following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir.

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Campo de Calatrava Volcanic Field

The Campo de Calatrava volcanic field is a volcanic field in Spain.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Carrán-Los Venados

Carrán-Los Venados is a volcanic group of scoria cones, maars and small stratovolcanoes in southern Chile, southeast of Ranco Lake.

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Cerro Overo

Cerro Overo is a maar lying at the foot of Chiliques volcano and close to Laguna Lejía, in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile over ignimbrites of Miocene-Pliocene age.

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Cerro Tujle

Cerro Tujle (also known as Cerro Tucle or Cerro Tugle) is a mafic volcanic centre in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, Chile.

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Chaîne des Puys

The Chaîne des Puys is a north-south oriented chain of cinder cones, lava domes, and maars in the Massif Central of France.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster)

The Cosmographia ("Cosmography") by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552) from 1544 is the earliest German-language description of the world.

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Crater lake

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 the crater left by an artificial explosion caused by humans.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Darmstadt-Dieburg

Darmstadt-Dieburg is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse, Germany.

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Daun, Germany

Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Dürres Maar

The Dürres Maar is a maar located in the vicinity of the village of Gillenfeld, Germany in the West Eifel mountains about 400 metres northwest of the Holzmaar.

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Death Valley National Park

Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada.

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Deudesfeld

Deudesfeld (in Eifel dialect: Deisseld) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the southwest Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.

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Diatreme

A diatreme, sometimes known as a maar-diatreme volcano, is a volcanic pipe formed by a gaseous explosion.

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Dreis-Brück

Dreis-Brück is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Dreiser Weiher

The Dreiser Weiher near Dreis-Brück in the vicinity of Daun in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a tub-shaped maar in the Eifel mountains.

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Duppach

Duppach is an Ortsgemeinde (a municipality), part of a group of municipalities called the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Gerolstein, which is located in the town of Gerolstein in the Vulkaneifel district of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Eckfeld

Eckfeld is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Eckfelder Maar

The Eckfelder Maar is a former volcanic lake, that was formed during the Middle Eocene around 44.3 million years ago and is thus the oldest known maar.

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Eichholzmaar

The Eichholzmaar is one of the smaller maars in the Volcanic Eifel and lies on the Landstraße between Steffeln and Duppach.

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Eifel

The Eifel (Äifel) is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium.

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El Elegante Crater

El Elegante (Spanish for elegant one) is a maar (a type of volcanic crater) located in the Gran Desierto de Altar in the Sonoran Desert, Mexico.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso (from Spanish, "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Explosion

An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases.

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Fort Rock-Christmas Lake Valley Basin

The Fort Rock-Christmas Lake Valley Basin is the basin of a former inland sea that existed in that region from Pliocene through late Pleistocene time.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Gemündener Maar

The Gemündener Maar is the northernmost of the three Daun Maars (Dauner Maare).

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Geographic coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.

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George Julius Poulett Scrope

George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS (10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876) was an English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Gerolstein

Gerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Gillenfeld

Gillenfeld is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Golan Heights

The Golan Heights (هضبة الجولان or مرتفعات الجولان, רמת הגולן), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant, spanning about.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Guanajuato

Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, are the 32 Federal entities of Mexico.

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Hectare

The hectare (SI symbol: ha) is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100 meter sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land.

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Hitsche Maar

The Hitsche Maar lies in the Eifel Mountains between Bitburg and Ulmen.

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Hole-in-the-Ground

Hole-in-the-Ground is a large maar (volcanic explosion crater) in the Fort Rock Basin of Lake County, central Oregon, northeast of Crater Lake, near Oregon Route 31.

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Holzmaar

The Holzmaar lies in the Volcanic Eifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate almost halfway between Gillenfeld (2.5 km away to the southwest) and Eckfeld.

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Immerath, Rhineland-Palatinate

Immerath is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Immerather Maar

The Immerather Maar is a maar in the municipality of Immerath in the county of Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Izu Islands

The are a group of volcanic islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honshū, Japan.

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Jayu Quta (Ladislao Cabrera)

Jayu Quta (Aymara jayu salt, quta lake, "salt lake", also spelled Jayo Khota, Jayu Khota, Jayu Kkota) is a maar partially filled with water, in the Bolivian Altiplano, north of the Salar de Uyuni and east of the Salar de Coipasa.

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Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (полуо́стров Камча́тка, Poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1,250-kilometre-long (780 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi).

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Kelberg

Kelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Kilbourne Hole

Kilbourne Hole is a maar volcanic crater, located west of the Franklin Mountains of El Paso, Texas, in the Potrillo volcanic field of Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

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Kimberlite

Kimberlite is an igneous rock, which sometimes contains diamonds.

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Kirishima, Kagoshima

is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Kirishima-Yaku National Park

is a national park in Kyūshū, Japan.

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Kyushu

is the third largest island of Japan and most southwesterly of its four main islands.

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Laacher See

Laacher See or Lake Laach (in English) is a volcanic caldera lake with a diameter of in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, about northwest of Koblenz and south of Bonn, and is closest to the town of Andernach situated to the east on the river Rhine.

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Laguna (province)

Laguna, officially known as the Province of Laguna (Lalawigan ng Laguna; Provincia de Laguna), is a province in the Philippines, located in the Calabarzon region in Luzon.

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Lake Albano

Lake Albano (Italian: Lago Albano or Lago di Castel Gandolfo) is a small volcanic crater lake in the Alban Hills of Lazio, at the foot of Monte Cavo, southeast of Rome.

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Lake Nyos

Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé the capital.

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Lake Pupuke

Lake Pupuke is a heart-shaped freshwater lake occupying a volcanic crater (or maar) between the suburbs of Takapuna and Milford on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand.

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Lake Ram

Lake Ram (בריכת רם, "Brekhat Ram"; بحيرة مسعدة, "Buhāir Mas'ade", lit. Lake of Mas'ade) is a crater lake (maar) in the northeastern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon.

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Lava

Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Los Baños, Laguna

, officially the, (name), is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Magma

Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.

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Maria Laach Abbey

Maria Laach Abbey (in German: Abtei Maria Laach, in Latin: Abbatia Maria Lacensis or Abbatia Maria ad Lacum) is a Benedictine abbey situated on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See (Lake Laach), near Andernach, in the Eifel region of the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany.

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Meerfeld

Meerfeld is a village and municipality belonging to a collective municipality in the county of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Meerfelder Maar

The Meerfelder Maar is a maar by the village of Meerfeld not far from the town of Manderscheid in the Eifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Messel

Messel is a municipality in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg in Hesse near Frankfurt am Main in Germany.

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Messel pit

The Messel Pit (Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel, (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

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Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff and west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

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Metre

The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI).

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Michoacán

Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Middle Low German

Middle Low German or Middle Saxon (ISO 639-3 code gml) is a language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and the ancestor of modern Low German.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Miyake-jima

is an inhabited volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea approximately southeast of Honshu, Japan.

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Mosbrucher Weiher

The Mosbrucher Weiher, also called the Mosbrucher Maar, is a silted up maar east of the municipal boundary of the village of Mosbruch in the county Vulkaneifel in Germany.

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Moselle Franconian dialects

Moselle Franconian (German Moselfränkisch) is a group of West Central German dialects, part of the Central Franconian language area.

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Mount Gambier (volcano)

Mount Gambier (also known as Ereng Balam, meaning eagle hawk) is a maar complex in South Australia associated with the Newer Volcanics Province.

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Mount Schank

Mount Schank is a high volcanic cone in the southeast corner of South Australia, near Mount Gambier.

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Mount Sempu

Mount Sempu in the northern arm of Sulawesi, Indonesia, contains a 3 km wide of caldera.

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Mount Taylor (New Mexico)

Mount Taylor (Navajo: Tsoodził) is a stratovolcano in northwest New Mexico, northeast of the town of Grants.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Newer Volcanics Province

The Newer Volcanics Province is a complex of volcanic centres formed by the East Australia hotspot across south-eastern Australia.

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Niederdürenbach

Niederdürenbach is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Nunivak Island

Nunivak Island (Nunivaaq in Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Nuniwar in Nunivak Cup'ig), the second largest island in the Bering Sea, is a permafrost-covered volcanic island lying about 30 miles (48 km) offshore from the delta of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in the state of Alaska, at about 60° North latitude.

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Oberwiesenthal

Oberwiesenthal is a town and a ski resort in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony in Germany.

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Oku Volcanic Field

The Oku Volcanic Field or Oku Massif is a group of volcanoes based on a swell in the Cameroon Volcanic Line, located in the Oku region of the Western High Plateau of Cameroon.

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Ore Mountains

The Ore Mountains or Ore Mountain Range (Erzgebirge; Krušné hory; both literally "ore mountains") in Central Europe have formed a natural border between Saxony and Bohemia for around 800 years, from the 12th to the 20th centuries.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Pali-Aike volcanic field

Pali-Aike volcanic field is a volcanic field in Argentina which straddles the border with Chile.

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Papenkaule

Papenkaule crater The Papenkaule (also Papenkaul in the local dialect) is a dry crater of a volcano that was active about 10,000 years ago.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.

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Permafrost

In geology, permafrost is ground, including rock or (cryotic) soil, at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years.

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Phreatomagmatic eruption

Phreatomagmatic eruptions are volcanic eruptions resulting from interaction between magma and water.

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Potrillo volcanic field

The Potrillo volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field located on the Rio Grande Rift, in a portion of its rift valley, in southern New Mexico, United States and northern Chihuahua, Mexico.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Province of Ciudad Real

The province of Ciudad Real (Royal City) is a province in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

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Pulvermaar

The Pulvermaar is a water-filled maar that lies southeast of Daun in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Reuth, Rhineland-Palatinate

Reuth is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Salt lake

A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Santorini

Santorini (Σαντορίνη), classically Thera (English pronunciation), and officially Thira (Greek: Θήρα), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast of Greece's mainland.

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Schalkenmehren

Schalkenmehren is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Schalkenmehrener Maar

The Schalkenmehrener Maar is a maar roughly 3 kilometres southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Sebastian Münster

Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer, cosmographer, and a Christian Hebraist scholar.

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Sedimentation

Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come to rest against a barrier.

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Seward Peninsula

The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Siberia

Siberia (a) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Stadtkyll

Stadtkyll is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Steffeln

Steffeln is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.

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Strotzbüsch

Strotzbüsch is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Sudan

The Sudan or Sudan (السودان as-Sūdān) also known as North Sudan since South Sudan's independence and officially the Republic of the Sudan (جمهورية السودان Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Swabian Jura

The Swabian Jura (more rarely), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width.

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Takapuna

Takapuna is a central, coastal suburb of North Shore, Auckland, located in the northern North Island of New Zealand, at the beginning of a south-east-facing peninsula forming the northern side of the Waitematā Harbour.

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Ubehebe Crater

Ubehebe Crater is a large volcanic crater of the Ubehebe Craters volcanic field in the northern half of Death Valley, in Death Valley National Park, California, USA.

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Ukinrek Maars

The Ukinrek Maars are two phreatomagmatic vents that formed on the north side of the Aleutian Range on a low area bordering the Bering Sea.

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Ulmen

Ulmen is a town in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Ulmener Maar

The Ulmener Maar is a maar in the Eifel mountains of Germany in the immediate vicinity of the town of Ulmen in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Volcanic cone

Volcanic cones are among the simplest volcanic landforms.

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Volcanic crater

A volcanic crater is a roughly circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.

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Volcanic Eifel

The Volcanic Eifel or Vulkan Eifel (Vulkaneifel) is a region in the Eifel Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history.

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Volcanic pipe

Volcanic pipes are subterranean geological structures formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of deep-origin volcanoes.

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Volcanic rock

Volcanic rock (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) is a rock formed from magma erupted from a volcano.

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Wall rock

Wall rock is the rock that constitutes the wall of an area undergoing geologic activity.

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Walsdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

Walsdorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Weinfelder Maar

The Weinfelder Maar, also called the Totenmaar, is a maar around two kilometres southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel Mountains, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field

The Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, also called the Clearwater Cone Group, is a potentially active monogenetic volcanic field in east-central British Columbia, Canada, located approximately north of Kamloops.

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White Rock, New Mexico

White Rock is a town in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States.

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Windsborn Crater Lake

Windsborn Crater Lake (Windsborn-Kratersee) is a water-filled volcanic crater in the Eifel mountains in Germany.

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Wollmerath

Wollmerath is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

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Yakushima

is one of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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Zengena Lake

Zengena Lake (ዘንገና ህይቅ) is a crater lake located at in the Awi Zone of the Amhara Region in Ethiopia.

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Zuni Salt Lake

Zuni Salt Lake, also Zuñi Salt Lake is a rare high desert lake, and a classic maar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maar

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