Editing Caldera (section)

== Etymology ==
The term ''caldera'' comes from [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''{{Wikt-lang|es|caldera}}'', and [[Latin]] ''{{Wikt-lang|la|caldaria}}'', meaning "cooking pot".<ref name="cole-etal-2005">{{cite journal |last1=Cole |first1=J |last2=Milner |first2=D |last3=Spinks |first3=K |title=Calderas and caldera structures: a review |journal=Earth-Science Reviews |date=February 2005 |volume=69 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–26 |doi=10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.06.004|bibcode=2005ESRv...69....1C }}</ref>  In some texts the English term ''cauldron'' is also used,<ref name="smith-bailey-1968"/> though in more recent work the term ''cauldron'' refers to a caldera that has been deeply eroded to expose the beds under the caldera floor.<ref name="cole-etal-2005"/> The term ''caldera'' was introduced into the geological vocabulary by the German geologist [[Leopold von Buch]] when he published his memoirs of his 1815 visit to the [[Canary Islands]],{{refn|group=note|name=note 1|Leopold von Buch's book ''Physical Description of the Canary Isles'' was published in 1825.}} where he first saw the Las Cañadas caldera on [[Tenerife]], with Mount [[Teide]] dominating the landscape, and then the [[Caldera de Taburiente]] on [[La Palma]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=von Buch |first1=L. |year=1820 |title=Ueber die Zusammensetzung der basaltischen Inseln und ueber Erhebungs-Cratere |location=Berlin |publisher=University of Lausanne
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