volcanism

It also suggests factors like plate tectonics and volcanism play a critical role in mediating habitable conditions, and we need to find ways of investigating these things on distant worlds as well.

The orbiter will map the surface with radar, chart elevations to make 3-D maps and look for plate tectonics and volcanism still ongoing on Venus.

Even on these planets, Foley says, “we still have volcanism,” because there’s still hot rock circulating beneath that heavy lid.

No volcanism scenario showed such total habitat destruction, the team found.

Farnsworth, paleontologist Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza of University College London and their colleagues evaluated how different dinosaur habitats would be affected under various impact and volcanism scenarios.

Volcanoes and volcanism are not restricted to the planet Earth.

Lassen Peak, some wise men believe, is the last exhibit of activity in the dying volcanism of the Cascade Mountains.

Thus, active volcanism is taking place, at present, on at least one planetary body in addition to our Earth.