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Crater may refer to:
Landforms
- Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
- Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surface
- Subsidence crater, a depression from an underground (usually nuclear) explosion
- Pit crater, a crater that forms through sinking of the surface and not as a vent for lava
- Volcanic crater, a roughly circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity
- Caldera, a large cauldron-like depression formed following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir
- Maar, a type of volcanic crate caused by a phreatic eruption or explosion
- Volcanic crater lake, including a list of lakes that formed in a volcanic or impact crater
Music
- Crater (Daniel Menche and Mamiffer album), 2016
- Crater (Fission album), 2004
Places
- Crati or Crater, a river of southern Italy
- Crater, California, U.S.
- Crater (Aden), a district of the Aden Governorate, Yemen
Other uses
- Crater (constellation)
- The Crater (novel) an 1847 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
- Joseph F. Crater (fl. 1889–1930), New York judge who disappeared in 1930
See also
- Crater lake (disambiguation)
- Cratering (disambiguation)
- Krater, a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water (the original meaning)
- Machtesh, a crater-like formation created by erosion
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