volcanism
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of volcanism
Vocabulary lists containing volcanism
Earth Science - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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“The intriguing feature could improve our understanding of volcanism not only on Io but on other worlds as well.”
From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025
But if many erupted, he says, a feedback loop could take hold, with ice loss leading to more volcanism, and more eruptions to more ice loss and consequent sea-level rise.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024
To better understand its volcanism, scientists hoped to catch a Venusian eruption in the act.
From New York Times • May 27, 2024
The four additional episodes of high Hg concentrations and high fern spore malformations were unlikely connected to later phases of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province volcanism.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024
It seemed as though the entire tip of the mountain was gone; had become a seething, flaming volcano on a world that had known no volcanism for hundreds of thousands of years.
From Subspace Survivors by Dongen, H. R. van
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