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Ukinrek Maar on Alaska Peninsula. A maar is a
wide crater caused by explosions from shallow intrusions of magma interacting with
groundwater. After the eruptions the crater often fills with water. The crater rim is
called a tuff ring. This eruption occurred in 1977. Photograph by R. Russell, Alaska
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