volcanism

noun

vol·​ca·​nism ˈväl-kə-ˌni-zəm 

ˈvȯl-

: volcanic action or activity

Examples of volcanism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This heat drives more melting and more basaltic volcanism, a process that plays out not just in the minutes-to-hours timescale of the actual collision, but in tens or even hundreds of millions of years afterward. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026

But deriving a unified theory of volcanism will require a geologic Manhattan Project. — Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026

The vast majority of Venus has been resurfaced by volcanism over the past half-billion years, and more than 85,000 volcanoes have been identified on the Venusian surface in radar images. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2026

Rocks nabbed by China’s robotic lunar sample return missions, Chang’e 5 and 6, indicate active volcanism there up until at least two billion years ago. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

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