1. cratering - Noun
2. cratering - Verb
cratering
present participle of crater
cratering (plural craterings)
The creation of a crater on a surface.
According to an analysis of Ida's cratering processes, its surface is more than a billion years old. Source: Internet
As a sampling, “Eight months after the novel corona-virus burst out of Wuhan, China, it has created unprecedented economic and social disruption, with economies cratering across the globe and more destruction to come.” Source: Internet
The Jets are five weeks away from cratering out. Source: Internet
Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering. Source: Internet
If true, the vast majority of impacts happened in that epoch, whereas the cratering rate has been much smaller since. Source: Internet
Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not. Source: Internet