Definition of cinder cone
: a conical hill formed by the accumulation of volcanic debris around a vent — see volcano illustration
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Though half of the caldera is obscured beneath the crystal blue waters of the Mediterranean, the other half is on land studded with cinder cones and craters from smaller eruptions.
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1849
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