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A '''caldera''' is a ] ] which usually has a flat surface at the bottom, formed by a ] collapsing into itself, usually because of low pressure in the ] chamber below or because of a violent eruption. Calderas often filled with water, creating crater lakes. A '''caldera''' is a ] ] which usually has a flat surface at the bottom, formed by a ] collapsing into itself, usually because of low pressure in the ] chamber below or because of a violent eruption. Calderas often filled with water, creating crater lakes.

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This article is about volcanic calderas. Caldera Systems is also the former name of SCO Group.

A caldera is a volcanic crater which usually has a flat surface at the bottom, formed by a volcano collapsing into itself, usually because of low pressure in the magma chamber below or because of a violent eruption. Calderas often filled with water, creating crater lakes.

A common mistake is that calderas are not as powerful as other volcanos. In fact, a caldera eruption will have several thousand times the explosive force as a normal volcanic eruption, and will eject considerably more debris. When Mount St. Helens erupted, it released eight cubic kilometers of ash, but when the Yellowstone Caldera erupted it released over a hundred thousand cubic kilometers, covering half of North America in two meters of debris. The ecological effects of this can be seen in the historical record of the Sumbawa eruption in Indonesia 40,000 years ago, which killed off approximately 85% of the human race.

Notable calderas