How to Use volcanism in a Sentence

volcanism

noun
  • Thanks to its weird volcanism, Io is a world of freakish extremes.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 18 July 2019
  • And if there are magma pools or volcanism going on, those areas will be hotter.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
  • This little rocky body does have a history of volcanism, though, and even has water ice in its craters.
    — Wired, 17 Nov. 2019
  • So, the extinctions appear to be at least partly caused by the volcanism.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021
  • 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
  • Or could the Greenlandic hum be the work of some incognito volcanism (opens a new tab)?
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But there are hints that small-scale volcanism continued until much more recent times.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Like much of the planet, Hawaii would not exist without volcanism.
    — Robin George Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Cloud microphysics, past volcanism, and sparse in-situ data keep the debate alive.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And this could have led to sedimentary volcanism, where pieces of rock and water erupt as mud.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 May 2020
  • 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
  • Way thinks that a more plausible suspect in Venus’ demise is a form of ruinous volcanism.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The mission for this final lunar landing was to find evidence of volcanism on the moon.
    — Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • Such a tear could also explain a string of curious volcanism that swoops across a broad swath of Oregon.
    — National Geographic, 29 July 2019
  • Explosive ideas The final piece of the puzzle is the volcanism.
    — National Geographic, 29 July 2019
  • There’s a very strong possibility that the whole thing comes down to volcanism, but there are other options.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • Researchers have found evidence of active volcanism on the surface of Venus for the first time.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
  • 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 stakes are high for exoplanets, too, where a small push in atmosphere, clouds, or volcanism could lock worlds into hellish states.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • On Earth, these shifting plates drive volcanism and rock weathering, which are key to carbon cycling.
    — Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • As with bouts of localised volcanism, there’s little that can be said about the effect of earthquakes with any real confidence.
    — Robin Andrews, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • The outburst may result from a rare case of icy volcanism on a comet—uncorked by solar heating of volatile gases trapped under cometary crusts.
    — Daniel Vergano, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • But a thousand kilometers to the west, in northeast China, there are remnants of old volcanism.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Prior work noted one possible origin of this ice was volcanism, which could disgorge large amounts of water vapor.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The trend lines for the top two show the apparent increase in volcanism while the bottom shows that there is no increase in total activity.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Occasional spurts of volcanism would still happen.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025

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