shallow crater

Frequency: 6.07.5 per million words

describes a crater that is not deep

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Examples (10)

  • The meteorite left a relatively shallow crater in the desert.
  • The moon's surface is dotted with countless shallow craters from minor impacts.
  • Water had collected in the shallow crater, forming a small pond.
  • A small explosion on the construction site created a shallow crater in the dirt.
  • Geologists studied the shallow crater to understand the volcanic history of the area.
  • Unlike the deep impact basin, this was just a shallow crater, barely a few meters deep.
  • Over centuries, erosion had turned what was once a deep pit into a shallow crater.
  • Is that shallow crater the result of a meteor strike or human activity?
  • We measured the depression; it was a shallow crater with a diameter of ten meters.
  • From the air, you could clearly see the outline of the shallow crater in the field.