noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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large
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Further along is Jingle Pot, another large crater of no great depth.
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Some areas appear to be relatively young, with few craters , while other areas are pocked with large craters and pits.
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The older large craters can be identified by the relatively large number of small craters which they bear.
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The presence of large impact craters was confirmed.
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Not needing any search, and impossible to miss, is a large crater bordering the track a little further on.
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Photographic mapping has revealed that Bruno is probably the youngest large crater on the Moon.
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Two explosions have left large craters alongside the rail line close to two housing estates at the western edge of Newry.
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Further, the largest craters seen on both satellites are nearly large enough to blast them into pieces.
lunar
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All of the various topographic features observed in lunar craters indicates their impact origin.
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Long before spacecraft missions first explored the Moon, speculation on the origin of the lunar craters abounded.
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They differ from corresponding lunar craters by having no central peaks and by having rather smooth rims.
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I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters .
small
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All these doubtful cases are small craters .
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The impact was so severe it left a small , black crater in the snow-white cornfield in rural Ida.
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The older large craters can be identified by the relatively large number of small craters which they bear.
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We slipped down into a small crater .
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One group of 3 was pressed into the same small rocket crater where they had sought shelter.
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Embassy wounded nine people and blew a small crater in the ground.
■ NOUN
impact
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Such a resolution would also establish whether impact craters and volcanoes exist.
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Once the first impact crater had been authenticated, other candidates quickly became known.
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There are mountains, canyons, perhaps impact craters , and perhaps volcanoes, some of which may even be still active.
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Statistical studies of both the age distribution of impact craters and the times of biological extinctions have suggested that both show clustering.
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Name seven different forms of ejecta from impact craters , and four topographic features that impact craters can bear.
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The presence of large impact craters was confirmed.
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Name seven different forms of ejecta from impact craters , and four topographic features that impact craters can bear.
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At latitudes greater than about thirty degrees, impact craters have a very peculiar appearance never seen on the Moon.
summit
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Strombolian activity in the summit craters was vigorous, with spatter and bombs thrown 200m into the air.
■ VERB
leave
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Not all meteorites are large enough to leave craters .
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The impact was so severe it left a small crater .
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I watched as the water subsided, leaving a crumbling brown crater .
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Two explosions have left large craters alongside the rail line close to two housing estates at the western edge of Newry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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bomb craters
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The meteor left a crater over five miles wide.
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When the bomb exploded it left a huge crater in the ground.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of the various topographic features observed in lunar craters indicates their impact origin.
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He said it the first time standing beside the crater at the U. P. Fonseca where the motorbike had been blown up.
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Long chains of tiny craters on Phobos suggest the drainage of regolith into deep cracks that riddle its interior.
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Some smooth plains consist of infill in some medium sized craters.
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Such a resolution would also establish whether impact craters and volcanoes exist.
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They look, instead, like craters made by explosions in mud or wet sand, surrounded by aprons of ejected muck.
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This basin, called the Chicxulub crater , formed on the continental shelf in shallow water.
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Venus has been excluded because of the paucity of information about impact craters on its surface.