cryovolcanism

English

Etymology

From cryo- +‎ volcanism.

Noun

cryovolcanism (uncountable)

1. (volcanology) The activity, and associated phenomena, of a cryovolcano – a volcano that ejects volatile materials rather than magma.
   • 2009, Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Jack Waite, Titan from Cassini-Huygens, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 228:

     Sites of cryovolcanisms on the surface, where this ammonia and water mixture reaches the surface, are possible locations for life that lives in liquid water but can tolerate ammonia.

   • 2015 March 12, John Timmer, “Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has a salty subsurface ocean, too”, in Ars Technica‎^[1]:

     Possible explanations include floods of liquid water, ice-based volcanic activity (termed cryovolcanism), or even some form of tectonic system.
     […] Voyager also found evidence of cryovolcanism on Neptune's moon Triton.

Hypernyms

• volcanism

Further reading

• cryovolcanism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia