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1Crater Hill — Crater Hill as seen from a plane departing Auckland Airport Crater Hill is one of the volcanoes of the Auckland Volcanic Field. It consists of an explosion crater about 600m wide, partly filled with water. Late in the eruption sequence lava… …
2Impact crater — The prominent impact crater Tycho on the Moon. In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body. In most common usage,… …
3Halemaumau Crater — Halemaokinaumaokinau crater is a pit crater located within the much larger summit caldera, of Kīlauea, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The roughly circular crater floor is convert|770|m|ft| 1 x convert|900|m|ft| 1 and is convert|83|m|ft| 1 below… …
4Giordano Bruno (crater) — lunar crater data caption=Giordano Bruno. NASA photo . latitude=35.9 N or S=N longitude=102.8 E or W=E diameter=22 km depth= Unknown colong=258 eponym=Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno is a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, just… …
5Zwicky (crater) — lunar crater data latitude=15.4 N or S=S longitude=168.1 E or W=E diameter=150 km depth= Unknown colong=192 eponym=Fritz ZwickyZwicky is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the west of the Aitken crater,… …
6Kopff (crater) — lunar crater data latitude=17.4 N or S=S longitude=89.6 E or W=W diameter=41 km depth= Unknown colong=90 eponym=August KopffKopff is a lunar crater that lies along the eastern edge of the inner Mare Orientale impact basin, on the western limb of… …
7Geology of the Moon — The geology of the Moon (sometimes called selenology, although the latter term can refer more generally to lunar science ) is quite different from that of the Earth. The Moon lacks a significant atmosphere and any bodies of water, which… …
8Earth Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Geology and Geochemistry The theme of the 33rd International Geological Congress, which was held in Norway in August 2008, was “Earth System Science: Foundation for Sustainable Development.” It was attended by nearly… …
9volcano — /vol kay noh/, n., pl. volcanoes, volcanos. 1. a vent in the earth s crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals. 2. a mountain or hill, usually having a cuplike crater at the summit,… …
10Mercury (planet) — Mercury  ☿ …
