CRATER LAKES
DESCRIPTION
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a caldera (collapsed volcano). A crater lake's appearance can be seen as a witch's cauldron, hence the name caldera which is cauldron in Spanish. It takes the appearance as a cauldron as the land around it is elevated above the water body. The land around the water body is very rocky as the land was formed from a collapsed volcano. Some crater lakes over time develop lots of vegetation surrounding the water body. The water's clarity in the crater lake is very transparent, because the water source is only from precipitation and that there is no in flowing streams carrying sediments.
Landforms mistaken for crater lakes: -Pingos, whose summit has collapsed and or sinkholes.