A bowl-shaped depression at the summit or on the flank of a volcano, surrounding the vent through which magma, ash and gas have erupted to the surface. A volcanic crater is generally smaller and more directly tied to a single eruptive vent than the much larger collapse depression of a caldera.
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A volcanic crater is an approximately circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity.
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