vulcanism

American  

[vuhl-kuh-niz-uhm] / ˈvʌl kəˌnɪz əm /

noun

Geology.

1. volcanism.

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vulcanism British  

/ ˈvʌlkəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a variant of volcanism

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Other Word Forms

• vulcanist noun

Etymology

Origin of vulcanism

First recorded in 1875–80; variant of volcanism

Example Sentences

The Leningrad astronomer Dr Nikolai Kozyrev has made another remarkable spectrographic observation of the Moon’s vulcanism, according to Novosti.

From Nature

The origins of this event are not clear but suggestions include vulcanism and climate change and the planet may have warmed or cooled rapidly.

From The Guardian

Lyell, following the eighteenth-century Scottish geologist James Hutton, had argued for geological uniformitarianism, the theory that the features of the Earth had been generated by processes people could still observe, such as erosion and vulcanism, acting at relatively constant rates.

From Salon

This isn’t controversial at all: we’re all aware that a decent sized asteroid strike, an outburst of vulcanism like the Deccan, a nuclear war, these could mean more than just that the daffodils flower a little earlier each year.

From Forbes

Of the terrific upheaval of that time, like some graveyard of the sea flung putrid and phosphorescent to the surface by submarine vulcanism, she had ceased to think as soon as her will was reinstated in command.

From Project Gutenberg