English: calderaFrench translation: caldeira / caldera 
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Geology / volcano | | English term or phrase: caldera | | Could you help me please with the definition (both in English and French) of this term. Thank you for your help |
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| Clarification request(s) and responseTony M: 5:08pm Mar 4, 2007: This sort of information is very readily available from common Internet resources like (for example) Wikipedia.
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| | caldeira / caldera | Explanation:
Robert :
caldeira [kaldeYa] n. f. VAR. caldera
• 1874; caldera 1903; mot port. « chaudière »
¨ Géol. Grand cratère volcanique, formé par l'effondrement de la partie supérieure du cône à la suite d'une éruption, qui émet en un temps très bref une grande quantité de matières.
OED :
caldera
n noun a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
ORIGIN
C17: from Spanish, from late Latin caldaria 'boiling pot'. |
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| caldeira / caldera
Explanation:
Robert :
caldeira [kaldeYa] n. f. VAR. caldera
• 1874; caldera 1903; mot port. « chaudière »
¨ Géol. Grand cratère volcanique, formé par l'effondrement de la partie supérieure du cône à la suite d'une éruption, qui émet en un temps très bref une grande quantité de matières.
OED :
caldera
n noun a large volcanic crater, especially one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano.
ORIGIN
C17: from Spanish, from late Latin caldaria 'boiling pot'.
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