patera

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
2. isim A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
3. isim 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.

   “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?”