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Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum

High school science curriculum designed by Maui teachers and field biologists

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Crater

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

the bowl-shaped depression around the orifice of a volcano; what is often called the ‘crater’ at the top of Haleakala is actually a valley carved by streams during the erosional stage of the volcano’s history (A1)

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