How to use in-sentence of “volcanism”:
– Mercury evidence for pulsed volcanism during the Triassic mass extinction.
– The volcanism in the arc began about 37 million years ago, but most of the present-day Cascade volcanoes are less than 2 million years old.
– This supports the argument, that volcanism is the main driving force behind mass extinctions.
– A recent paper in PNAS shows fairly clearly that mass volcanism was involved.
– Originally created by plate tectonics about 35million years ago and subsequently altered by volcanism and erosion, the river’s drainage basin was significantly modified by the Missoula Floods at the end of the most recent ice age.
– Renewed volcanism in the Garibaldi area would pose a serious threat to the local communities of Whistler and Squamish.
– It is used by the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program to assess historic and prehistoric lava flows.
