How to Use volcanism in a Sentence

volcanism

noun
  • This might be a clue as to why the Red Planet doesn’t have the plate tectonics that drive the frenzy of volcanism on Earth.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 22 July 2021
  • Thanks to its weird volcanism, Io is a world of freakish extremes.
    Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 18 July 2019
  • Explosive ideas The final piece of the puzzle is the volcanism.
    National Geographic, 29 July 2019
  • The spacecraft's goal was to confirm lightning in thick clouds and search for signs of active volcanism.
    Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 31 May 2024
  • So, the extinctions appear to be at least partly caused by the volcanism.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021
  • This list suggests a mission to Jupiter's moon Io to study the volcanism there might be one of the proposals, as well as a mission to land on Venus.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2017
  • The researchers point to areas of past volcanism in the Mediterranean and in Turkey and Iran as examples that might fit.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Researchers have found evidence of active volcanism on the surface of Venus for the first time.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This little rocky body does have a history of volcanism, though, and even has water ice in its craters.
    Wired, 17 Nov. 2019
  • The Cascade Range is one of the most accessible spans of active volcanism on Earth.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Like much of the planet, Hawaii would not exist without volcanism.
    Robin George Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Lin and others looked at a wide variety of ice cores from both poles to take a census of volcanism recorded.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The Norse settled in Iceland during the last period of intense volcanism in the late 800s.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This would allow hot material from both the melted crust and the mantle to break through to the surface through volcanism.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Such a tear could also explain a string of curious volcanism that swoops across a broad swath of Oregon.
    National Geographic, 29 July 2019
  • Which played a larger role in driving the extinction: the volcanism or the meteor?
    Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The mission for this final lunar landing was to find evidence of volcanism on the moon.
    Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • These are all big ifs, however, and the existence of present-day volcanism is an open question.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2021
  • And this could have led to sedimentary volcanism, where pieces of rock and water erupt as mud.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 May 2020
  • Getting a firm date for Mons Rümker will also shed light on how lunar volcanism changed over time.
    Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The Moon is much smaller than Earth, losing its internal heat - driving volcanism on the surface - at a much faster rate.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Spread across the planet, the faculae have been linked to billions of years of explosive volcanism in Mercury’s past.
    Nola Taylor Redd, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018
  • And if there are magma pools or volcanism going on, those areas will be hotter.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
  • This means that the overall rate of volcanism has not gone up, but rather our ability to document eruptions that are small (VEI 3 or less).
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • And to have a stable atmosphere, a planet needs a few things: volcanism, sufficient mass, and oceans.
    Regina G. Barber, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • But a thousand kilometers to the west, in northeast China, there are remnants of old volcanism.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • But researchers thought this volcanism stopped 2.5 million years ago.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
  • Instead, most of its plasma comes from icy volcanism on Enceladus, a gelid moon that erupts water-ice slush from deep crevasses around its south pole.
    Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Studying the moon’s underground caves could give researchers a better understanding of how volcanism works, per the study.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • The interaction of these two phenomena led to the creation and ongoing volcanism of the island nation.
    Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024

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