Maar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A flatbottom, roughly circular volcanic crater of explosive origin that is often filled with water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a broad volcanic crater, usually filled with a lake
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geology:
  • n. A local German name originally applied to certain small crater-lakes in the recently extinct volcanic region of the Eifel, near Bonn, on the Rhine. The craters were believed to have resulted from explosive outbreaks, without emissions of lava.
  • n. Technically, any crater which has been produced by an explosion unaccompanied by lava.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water
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