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
• Future research and exploration of lunar caves could also provide new insight into the evolution of the moon and lunar volcanism, the authors note in the study.
  — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 17 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024