23 in a crater at the summit of Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island.
The extinction of dinosaurs is primarily attributed to two major events: Asteroid Impact: Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth near present-day Mexico, creating the Chicxulub crater.
One of the glost-ovens was empty; they entered it and peered into the lofty inner chamber, which seemed like the cold crater of an exhausted volcano, or like a vault, or like the ruined seat of some forgotten activity.
5-mile ash column above the crater and a deadly spurt of hot ash, gases and fragmented volcanic rock about 2 miles down the mountain's southeast flank.
" "If thou weren't more a lass than a lad, I'd fell thee this minute, I would; pitiful lath of a crater!
Vapor and smoke mingled with flames and incandescent stones were thrown up from the crater.
Already for three months had the crater emitted vapors more or less dense, but which were as yet produced only by an internal ebullition of mineral substances.
The volcano had awoke, and the vapor had penetrated the mineral layer heaped at the bottom of the crater.
On the 7th of September, Cyrus Harding, having observed the crater, saw smoke curling round the summit of the mountain, its first vapors rising in the air.
"The crater, that is to say, the safety-valve, exists, and the overflow of smoke and lava, would escape, as it did formerly, by this customary outlet.
However, Cyrus Harding did not remember having seen, at the time of his excursion to the crater, any other watercourses but the Red Creek and the Mercy.
Climbing down the crater, they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night.
The crater was reached.
It was the rugged mouth of the crater, by which the eruptive liquid matter had escaped at the periods when the volcano was still in activity.
Shi Shen crater on the Moon is named after him.
Lake Toba, which fills the crater of a giant volcano that erupted tens of thousands of years ago, is a popular and picturesque destination for tourists.
Soon after the Indian feat, Nasa crashed a spacecraft into the 100km-wide Cabeus crater which is in permanent shade on the moon's south pole.
" Intrepid travellers can join three-hour hikes to the bank of the crater to experience the lake in person.
By examining the comparatively young rocks uncovered by an impact crater, Yutu found basalts with intermediate levels of titanium and high iron levels.
Set your alarm clock and get up early to watch the sunrise from Haleakala Crater.
