Examples of volcanic in a Sentence

Adjective a man with a volcanic temper that could go off at any moment

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Chemical signatures on the meteorite indicate that Mars also had volcanic activity similar to that on Earth, and may help researchers compare the formation history of Earth and Mars. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2022 Still others are associated with volcanic activity, groundwater seepage or coal mines. — Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2022 Mount Washburn, the remnant of volcanic activity, was named after the 1870s Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition leader General Henry Washburn. — Fox News, 21 May 2022 Nootka Seamount is an underwater mountain that formed thanks to volcanic activity. — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 May 2022 Many scientists thought that the Descartes region featured rocks that had been shaped by volcanic activity, proving that the moon had evolved over a long period of time. — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022 Hydrothermal sites are abundant in this northern Californian landscape of bubbling mud pots, lava fields, and the sort of intricate wilderness only volcanic activity can inspire. — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022 Although there is no current volcanic activity, that does not mean the volcanoes are not active, according to study author Kelsi Singer, senior research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. — Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022 Its seafloor may still be undergoing volcanic and/or hydrothermal activity that could offer subsurface life a steady supply of nutrients via chemical synthesis. — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Yet the Krýsuvík-Trölladyngja volcanic system—which extends narrowly through the Reykjanes Peninsula, in the country’s southwest—hadn’t erupted for seven or eight hundred years. — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 In a separate project in 2018, for example, scientists announced the discovery of a stunning volcanic ‘lost world’ off the coast of Tasmania. — Fox News, 20 June 2020 See More

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