Meaning of patera | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
2. A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
3. The caldera or crater (dish-shaped depression) atop a volcano, especially an extraterrestrial one; also used in the names of extraterrestrial volcanoes which have such a caldera.

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Examples

“What caused the transitions from explosive to effusive volcanism in the Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province generally and during the eruptive lifetimes of individual highland patera volcanoes?”

“Note⟳ that the eroded plains materials to the right of the patera show⟳ no signs of individual lava flows.”

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