How To Use Crater In A Sentence

Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that grew within the breached crater of Monte Somma volcano.
Now, two weeks after her visit to Paris Crater, missing Hannah already but knowing that the girl must be safe in the firmary, Ada found herself lost in thought during the carriole ride over the hills to home. Ilium
The region is also home to features known as "domes" - seen between the crater and the Carpathian Mountains. Universe Today
The train car derailed, and a crater was left in the track bed.
A group of scientists from the University of South Carolina in Columbia says that they've used geological anomalies, as well as clues from rock samples, to identify an ancient crater buried beneath the piedmont sediments of their state.

The air split, smoke and flame grew, the bullet slammed into the crater wall and sprayed Callaghan with mud.
Huge craters scarred the streets and Clifton airfield.
Mars Science Laboratory will be phyllosilicate clays in Gale Crater, Young said. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
My men knew my history, they even came to me with Captain Kurt Schneider's documents one day, found them on a body in a shell crater. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Taking a wider view can introduce a sense of wilderness – such as this picture of flamingos and wildebeest in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater.
The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.
The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
Cameras arrive almost instantly at the site of car bombs that have left huge craters in the ground.
However, there may be water locked in permafrost in some deep polar craters.
Lunar craters can be plainly seen with the aid of a small telescope.
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary comprises a fringing coral reef ecosystem nestled within an eroded volcanic crater on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary
At Gusev Crater, Spirit had to divert from her original course up Husband Hill because the slopes were too steep and the sandy terrain too slippery.
There were strong dialogue scenes with the caretaker and emotional scenes at the crater itself, but no real logical way to sequence them.
There were tangled ribbons of metal scattered for hundreds of metres, variously shaped satellitic craters and mounds, but of the captain and his trench there was not a single sign. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
The crater was still in shadow, but the floodlights mounted around its rim lit the interior brilliantly.
Callisto's surface is icy and has some large impact craters and basins surrounded by concentric rings.
The surface of the moon is peppered with craters.
The actual volcanic crater is one of the largest in the world as the town of Soufriere is neatly nested into the land based half, while the other portion lies under water and extends northward in the direction of Martinique's Soufiere.
Many craters are characterized by large lava-flow-like features that may represent molten ejecta flowing outward from the crater after the impact.
Continued growth increases the risk of partial dome collapse, which could trigger moderate explosions and possibly significant lahars (volcanic mudflows) from the crater.
Only in the shadows of deep cold craters could you expect to find any, frozen and hidden.
We know from looking at cross-cutting relationships between the fault scarp and these very small-diameter craters that the scarps can't be any more than about a billion years old. Images Show A Shrinking Moon
As you can see, Galle is a huge impact crater (although it's dwarfed by Argyre Planitia and Hellas Planitia, both of which are much, much larger). A Matter of Perspective
That said, Douglas Wolk pointed out that Mazzucchelli pre-empted this exact criticism anyway by literally placing a giant hole in the middle of his novel (the two page spread of the meteor crater). Asterios Polyp » Comics Worth Reading
When a large object impacts the Earth, it makes a crater.
There appears to me to be insuperable objections to this view: on the other hand, I can hardly believe, in this and in some other cases, that these marginal crateriform mountains are merely the basal remnants of immense volcanos, of which the summits either have been blown off, or swallowed up in subterranean abysses. Chapter XXI
So the southern hemisphere is far more heavily cratered, and the south pole is four miles higher than the north.
The modest, by contrast, realise that, in the sum of history and geography, they're but a tiny, passing crater, and the stoics know that human pain has to be suffered and can't just be railed against.
However, there may be water locked in permafrost in some deep polar craters.
Sometimes there were duckboards around the lips of the huge shell craters.
A huge crater marks the spot where the explosion happened.
Nor do we view the tiny flame of our own kindling (guarded in lasting purity as its light ever is) with greater awe than the celestial fires though they are often shrouded in darkness; nor do we deem it a greater marvel than the craters of Etna, whose eruptions throw up stones from its depths and great masses of rock, and at times pour forth rivers of that pure and unmixed subterranean fire. On the Sublime
Let's see, the economy "cratered," in John McCain's words, under the absentee landlord practices of the Bush Administration. RNC airs critical ads prior to Obama visit
The crater was two miles across and roughly circular.
A northern mid-latitude scene consisting of craters, intercrater plains, and mantled material is visible in this HiRISE image. Tucson Weekly
There were craters from the American bombs, but no bunker, or any hint of one. 'I HAVEN'T SUFFERED DOUBT'
The Rangers now advance through a moonscape of craters and smashed gun positions.
The lams cut the old craters but not the young craters. New Images of Phobos from Mars Express Flyby | Universe Today
The nearby crater lake, Pavin, is visited by over 200,000 people each year.
Ice and dust debris will be ejected from the crater revealing the material beneath.
It looked a pleasant enough place from the ship even if, according to the guide books, it was built in the crater of an extinct volcano.
The crater was about two miles across, almost perfectly circular, with several steep-sided peaks evenly placed around the rim.
It will have a cutaway section so you can see how the crater was originally shaped because it's got a lot of silt and infill in it - 50,000 years is a long time.
The location is accessible by car and motorcycle, but to get to the crater itself you have to walk another three kilometers along a path.
A year later, high-end home buyers were thought to have endless, deep pockets, further insulating the top-tier from the cratering economy. America's Most Expensive Homes
Although rich with game the crater has no giraffe, impala or topi.
By this stage we had only an hour to get back to the hut - raced part way back along the crater rim, down the mountain until we got to the top chairlift and begged a ride down from the Marley-listening operators.
Spirit landed in the middle of Gusev Crater, a 95-mile-wide depression scientists believe contained a lake during the ancient past.
A chemical analysis of impact crater residue allowed him to distinguish between impacts due to naturally occurring micrometeoroids and those due to artificial space debris.
The photo reveals a thick layer of dust blanketing the floor and wall of the summit crater atop a tall volcano called Pavonis Mons.
Within a few more minutes monster raindrops were cratering the surface of the river.
Crater - scarred Rhea floats in the distance, peeking out from behind Saturn's partly shadowed rings.
When I was in college, my geology professor told us about Lake Nyos, which had formed in a volcano crater in Cameroon, West Africa.
Not only does Sacco render brilliantly the crater-pocked streets of Gorazde, the faces of amputees in bombed-out hospitals, the uniforms of the Serb military, but he draws in detail the design on the package of the ubiquitous Drina cigarettes and the hairstyles of the girls he meets who ask him to bring Levi's 501s from Sarajevo. Maus Culture
The oddest thing is that the missiles, while being tremendously destructive of human life, left quite small craters in the ground.
Rising magma continues to build a lava dome in the crater of Mount St. Helens.
Whitehead hopes to learn more about the meteorite when he goes to the crater's site next summer.
The crater appears to be composed of a hard grey clinkstone, much fissured; but lower down the mountain, the rock is softer, and has a bluish tinge. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Distinct micro-Raman spectra signatures of sample from the Little Hebe crater rim in Death Valley B simultaneously showing mineralogical and microbiological spectral signatures of various minerals. SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Rosalba Bonaccorsi -- Protecting and Exploring Mars from Earth
By the passage of the water, some part of the fissures was often enlarged into a round hole of considerable size, ending in a craterlet at the surface. A Study of Recent Earthquakes
The cartoon function enables me to hide the chin hairs, the crow's feet, the craterous pores, and that weird thing growing on my eyelid. Blogs Are Stupid
He gestured at the Greeks, who produced a crater and a pair of silver goblets.
Ahead and to the right were rolling miles of a pahoehoe sea, bounded by the unseen Pacific 3,000 feet below, with countless craters, fissures emitting vapour, and all other concomitants of volcanic action; bounded to the north by the vast crater of The Hawaiian Archipelago
The northwest front has now five arches with ramparts fallen in; northeast barbette battery unserviceable; east front scarp much scaled by slant fire, with large craters under traverses; principal injury at level of arches and terreplein; two-thirds of southern wall east of magazine damaged; stone abutment unhurt and protected by rubbish; gorge not damaged since yesterday. Memoirs of the War of Secession
Mauritius, beautiful appearance ofGreat crateriform ring of MountainsHindoosSt. Chapter XXI
The rest of the crater forms a rim of jagged peaks and spires, which give it a dinosaur skeleton-like profile.
The circumstances under which the fish reached the crater lakes have been a subject of speculation for many years.
WASHINGTON - Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter Martian past. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Latitudes and Attitudes does an all-day heli-hike, starting with whirlybird sightseeing over Haleakala and ending with a 15-mile catered hike from Kaupo Gap through the volcano's crater.
These in turn merge gradually into dark circles and bright outer rings with no evidence of impact cratering.
À memória vem o comic clássico de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons, Wathcmen, em que um homem super-poderoso deixa sobre marte uma cratera que se assemelha a um... smiley. Leituras
Mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids thrive in the damp atmosphere of the Crater, giving way to huge mahogany, olive and date palm trees on the drier crater walls.
In the surrounding countryside, at least a dozen cows and sheep lay dead, covered by the silty grey material that began spewing on August 4 from the crater, obscured from view by a shroud of dark clouds.
But I usually insist that it has some tune, and that the main performer isn't some overgrown choirboy with a twatty face covered in craters.
Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range.
Comets and carbonaceous asteroids of the appropriate energy disrupt too high, whereas typical iron objects reach and crater the terrestrial surface.
What the scientists can do - and have done - is unite the in-focus elements of each picture in the series and create anaglyphs that present a three-dimensional view of the outcrop and the terrain of the crater floor.
The "knowns" -- the gifted Galt MacDermott, the ingenious British designer John Bury, the not yet knighted Peter Hall, couldn't have had better pedigrees for approaching a piece of such ambition: there was a space ship that sailed over the orchestra; trampolines cratered into the stage to bounce us like 'low gravity' might, and a massive rocket tail would blast us all off at the show's end in quadraphonic sound. Melanie Chartoff: Spine-tingling"Spiderman"--for All the Wrong Reasons
He said the compounds migrate to the poles, get flash-frozen and collect in craters, where they stay "in the permanent shadows. What's the moon made of? NASA mission finds it's nothing so simple as cheese.
One side of the main crater spews out sulfurous gases and many people quarry sulfur there for sale.
South is the desert and further south-east are more mountains with desolate plateaux and volcanic cones and craters.
Long before spacecraft missions first explored the Moon, speculation on the origin of the lunar craters abounded.
Gullies, streaks, ripples and dust devil tracks on Russell Crater Dunes.
The uneven topography alternated between blocks of ice mesas, deep ice craters, bony ice ridges, and rolling ice dunes glowing an otherworldly sapphire-blue.
The chafing was so severe that the wires within the bundle had begun arcing and welding themselves to the beam creating a large crater.
A craterlet had opened in the lava some yards away. Three Worlds To Conquer
The papule becomes pustular and ulcerates, producing an ulcer crater with colorless exudate.
The radius, _p b_, of the upper circle is termed the _crater radius_; the line _o p_, drawn from the centre of the charge perpendicular to the surface where the explosion takes place, is termed the _line of least resistance_; the line _o b_, drawn from the centre of the powder to any point in the circumference of the upper circle, is termed the _radius of explosion_. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
Television footage showed lava flowing out of the crater while thick clouds of smoke rose upwards and a large fireball burst into the night sky.
Long before spacecraft missions first explored the Moon, speculation on the origin of the lunar craters abounded.
In 1912, Horbiger teamed up with an amateur selenographer, Phillip Fauth (who has a moon crater named after him). James Randi Educational Foundation
The features that look like craters have the wrong proportions to be impact craters.
What they do know is that a ‘slow rise’ of magma is driving lava to the surface, which has created a new lava dome in the mountain's crater.
After a pleasant preamble by a stream, a strenuous uphill section over rough lava flows brings you to the South Crater.
We saw places along the shoreline where the ground was cratered, trees flung aside in broken rows.
Both bays are part of a massive volcano crater that has eroded away.
OTAY so i sweeps the oooshy grey goop into a pan wipe the dirt of wiff my sleeve plop the mess inta the cavernous gaping skull crater whang the parts ob skull into place Dats one small step fur me and… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
And the Mars rover people name craters, rocks, pebbles, and all manner of things all the time. NASA Watch: News: July 2009 Archives
A huge crater marks the spot where the explosion happened.
Indeed, on closer inspection many of the heavily cratered regions showed evidence of erosion patterns that also seemed consistent with thicker atmospheric conditions in the past.
If it had hit the Earth, it would have made a crater 100 miles across and thrown up an immense cloud of dust.
Sediments deposited by the water may also have been brought to the surface by the meteorite impacts that gave rise to the many craters visible today.
As formações na cratera Galle assim se chama a sorridente cratera são naturais, e indiciam sinais de àgua em Marte, mas gostaria de saber o que é que malta que leva a sério a face de marte anda a pensar. Leituras
They're something other than just craters and surface features which are formed by exogenic processes.
This lagune is probably formed in the basin or crater of some extinct geyser or volcanic spring, as the two high and wonderfully similar mountains on either side are identical in formation with those in which occur the cave-craters farther south on the same river. Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45
On the outside of the bay, submerged ridges and pinnacles projecting from the sunken part of the crater rim approach the surface.
You can also see the ejecta blanket, material that has been tossed out’ of the crater.
There were mountains, vast plains, and what they called pits and we call craters. Drudge Retort
Picture an ancient volcano crater partly filled by a glacier.
The shelling churned the landscape into a sea of mud and craters.
She then flew up as his plasma canon blasted away a large crater.
This shows a heavily cratered highland terrain, and is used to monitor illumination of polar areas, and long shadows cast by large crater rims.
Many of the larger craters in both the highlands and mare basins display clusters or rings of steep mountains at their centers.
On the crater rim are leopard Panthera pardus, elephant Loxodonta africana (EN) numbering 42 in 1987 but only 29 in 1992, mountain reedbuck Redunca fulvorufula and buffalo Syncerus caffer (4,000 in 1994). Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Its crater is 525 meters X 425 meters in diameter, and has a depth of between 47.5 meters and 195 meters.
Instead, the basalt flows and volcanic central peaks are found to be very closely associated with large craters.
The reds are cratered highlands, which contain few resources.
It's truly a wonder - a massive crater in the middle of scrublands, with a tiny forest in the center.
Skeletal dead trees ring the edge of Manaro's crater, while trees in dense jungle nearby were covered in ash which has been belching from the volcano.
Mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids thrive in the damp atmosphere of the Crater, giving way to huge mahogany, olive and date palm trees on the drier crater walls.
Although the lunar domes are known examples of shield volcanoes on the moon, this crater would be the first known example of the mountain-like stratovolcano, which is the iconic type most people picture when they think of volcanoes. "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader
As a result, the ground is littered with craters from asteroid impacts.
Mauritius, beautiful appearance of — Great crateriform ring of mountains — Hindoos — St. Helena — Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
They came to the lip of a dead crater.
The rushing water left a hole about 20 metres deep and 40 metres wide in a road near Salem, and a car that plunged into the crater landed on its top in a creek.
He said talks with eBay had "cratered" before he and Mr. Buckmaster were called to a meeting with Ms. Whitman in July 2004. DealBook
The volcano is heaping up a new lava dome in its crater, perhaps even rebuilding itself to a pre-1980 shape.
Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Yaxcopoil-1 drill hole Chicxulub crater, Yucatan Peninsula. Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit
Samples of sediment taken from the seafloor southeast of the crater, but not those obtained elsewhere around the crater, contain small mineral globules called tektites, one hallmark of an extraterrestrial impact.
First, acid etching of the electrode surfaces produces tiny cavities and craters that greatly expand the surface area across which a static charge can be held.
To get from the police post to the crater you descend the declivitous wall of the old volcano, with its layers of hardened lava at the top and scree at the bottom.
For example, the largest would have excavated a crater the size of the British Isles, boiled the oceans and swathed the planet with incandescent rock paper sterilizing the surface pretty thoroughly.
He is honoured by having a large lunar crater named after him.
The explosion of Mount Katmai, the rise and fall of Kilauea's boiling lava, the playing of Yellowstone's monster geysers, the spectacle of Mazama's lake-filled crater, the steaming of the Cascade's myriad bubbling springs, all make strong appeal to the imagination. The Book of the National Parks
When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.
The surface is covered with layers of nitrogen and water ice that are scarred by meteor craters.
Charred carcasses of cars were tossed in deep craters along entire blocks that were pulverized.
The neat paths were pocked with craters. Times, Sunday Times
With all that's going on, your idiot's stunt in flames and the economy "cratering" we've now turned to tackling the bigger crisis: equal pay. Obama's Chances Rise In Three Deep-Red States
An event of this kind would create a huge crater, send out shock waves, and create tremendous atmospheric disturbance.
The concentric borders of the black slipware rhymed with the concentric topographical rings in an aerial photograph of the Roden Crater; the visual connections between micro and macro were implicit.
He jumped down, knife in hand, going down into the crater like a spider spinning a web.
They blasted a huge crater in the runway.
The 22 tiny patches of Martian surface revealed a barren landscape pitted with craters, like the Moon.
Now if Obama turns into Jimmy Carter and craters, which is just as likely given the built up pork demands of the Democratic Party and its innate pacifism, then she can run as the Avenging Angel and win in 2012. Dana Milbank would like Sarah Palin to stop fighting and accept defeat graciously.
Waimangu Volcanic Valley's highlight is its Inferno Crater, as well as powder blue, steaming waters and sheer crater walls.
From the impact ejecta volume, he calculated a crater size of around 150 to 200 meters.
Though the two look close together, Epimetheus is actually well behind the heavily cratered Rhea. Daily Wonders From NASA's Photo Album
Paul hurried to the rim of the crater as fast as he could.
The lightning strike blew a crater in Margaret's front yard, cracking brickwork, smashing windows, melting guttering and water pipes and blowing up her hot water system.
Crucially for Mr. Caramadre, the plans also come with a guaranteed death benefit, in which the insurer generally agrees to repay at least the amount invested after the "annuitant" dies, even if markets have cratered and the invested sums have dwindled. Judge Lets Claims Stand in Annuity Case
Pushing through the dust cloud above the surface to hug the craterous landscape, his squadron chased their elusive quarry through canyons and across wide open plains to the mountains. 365 tomorrows » I Pledge My Life : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The easiest explanation of crater duplicity is that the impacting body was an asteroid with a close satellite.
One of the craters is especially promising because it lies near what seem to be dried-out river channels, Barlow said.
Shortly before the end of the war we were moved from Mahrenberg farm to Kapfenberg in Austria where we were placed on a work detail filling in bomb craters at an airfield. Robert Cunliffe
It's easy now, walking across the common, past the sandpit to the crater-like dent that harbours a little lake, to imagine that first discovery just as Wells's narrator saw it.
The hills are jagged and dimpled with craters, some outlined in scorch marks.
The core was recently extracted from beneath the floor of the crater so that geologists could examine the stratigraphic evidence.
The structures are bounded by a series of extensional ring faults that exhibit similarities to salt withdrawal basins, caldera collapse features and impact craters.
At the discovery outcrop, the black glass-lined effusion crater with its glassy tendrils marks the transition from subterranean fulgurite tubes to exogenic styles of formation.
Geological Survey crews also observed a shift in the crater floor and on part of the 1,000-foot lava dome that essentially serves as a plug for magma, he said.
Large craters, called astroblemes, are frequently hidden by the earth's own natural processes.
Examination of forage craters indicated that caribou had to contend with only a few centimetres of soft powder snow with a loose granular base.
With a good telescope, you can see craters on the moon.
Daylight won across Chilcoot that same day, dropping down five hundred feet in the darkness and the flurrying snow to Crater Chapter V
In the base of the volcano are several minor craters or pailas (from 0.5 m to 10 m in diameter) with mud in ebullition. Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician. Phobos
When tiny craters begin to appear on the surface, in about 1 minute or less, use a knife to separate the edges of the blin from the pan, then flip the blin. Peace Meals
Arts market, some writing, failed submissions to an open exhibition, our joint 100th birthday, family stuff, loads of photography (like this crescent moon - click on it for full size to see the craters) and a UK premier of a film to organise plus two other screenings for the science festival but the main culprit is the return to full time day job for pension reasons! Archive 2008-04-01
The biggest and the final one landed in the crater of a huge volcano.
The site remained in Iraqi hands yesterday, a day after a US warplane dropped four bunker-buster bombs and blasted a smoking crater 60 feet deep at the restaurant.
It revealed Eros to be an oddly shaped, heavily cratered object, with ridges and grooves, and covered by a million boulders, each larger than a house.
She was following the rim of the crater towards him.
These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana. Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia
Next, fill the hole and crater completely with drywall compound, plus an additional thin skiff of compound that sits slightly proud of the surface.
These include ostrich Struthio camelus, with white pelican Pelicanus onocrotalus, and greater and lesser flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber and P. minor on Lake Makat in Ngorongoro crater, Lake Ndutu and the Empakaai crater lake where over a million birds forgather. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
An eroded crater in a larger plain with a scalloped appearance near Pavonis Mons.
It's hit or miss as to whether you'll get a view of the volcano's sulfuric craters, because of cloud cover, fog, and haze.
Statistical studies of both the age distribution of impact craters and the times of biological extinctions have suggested that both show clustering.
According to a new report by geologists using instruments on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to look at the "parfait" of layers inside Gale Crater, the layers show that Mars was likely wet at one point, but gradually dried over time. Multi-Layer Mars Parfait Provides Environmental Record | Universe Today
Although relatively young meteorite impact craters have been identified in Argentina and Chile, these two Brazilian structures are the first ancient astroblemes to be reported from South America.
One group of 3 was pressed into the same small rocket crater where they had sought shelter.
But after mining has been in progress for some time, and various craters have been blown and sapped out to, and after trench mortars have "strafed" consistently for many months and torn the original surface of the ground to pieces, the actual position of the trenches themselves becomes haphazard. No Man's Land
This was the district known as Crater and it looked just like that, in fact a moon landscape was what it reminded me of most, black hills and valleys under a brooding grey sky, and not a leaf or blade of grass to be seen.
It will have a cutaway section so you can see how the crater was originally shaped because it's got a lot of silt and infill in it - 50,000 years is a long time.
He describes how some areas were pitted with moonlike craters.
Eyewitnesses report seeing glowing rocks and ash spouting from the crater.
Impact ejecta deposits show a non-linear decrease in thickness with radial distance from the centre of the source crater.
It is the world’s only structurally intact exposure of the basement, below the crater floor, of a very large astrobleme. Vredefort Dome, South Africa
Shoemaker, who wrote his doctoral thesis on the crater, was renowned for his work on extraterrestrial impacts and the mechanics of meteorite impacts, and for his co-discovery of coesite, a shocked form of quartz rarely found naturally on Earth. Signs of the Times
In the glare of the bedside lamp she could see the features magnified, coarsened, pores like miniature craters, two unplucked hairs standing like bristles at the corner of the mouth. She Closed Her Eyes
An hour of very severe work, and energetic use of the knife on the part of the Aino, took me to the top of one of these through a mass of entangled and gigantic vegetation, and I was amply repaid by finding a deep, well-defined crateriform cavity of great depth, with its sides richly clothed with vegetation, closely resembling some of the old cones in the island of Kauai. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
In that vein, the biggest crater at the south pole has been called Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus and Remus. BBC News - Home
Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that grew within the breached crater of Monte Somma volcano.
Heavily cratered terrain is the most abundant geologic unit; but one should note that there are no old, large impact basins like the ones on Rhea, Iapetus, or Callisto.

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