Vulcanist

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  • n. Someone interested in volcanism, the study of volcanoes.
  • n. A follower of Vulcanism
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A volcanist.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In the early history of geological science, one who supported the Huttonian theory, or who was in opposition to the views of Werner. See Huttonian.
  • Word Usage
    "Although Guettard was indeed the first (1752) to recognize the extinct volcanic features of central France and thus became the founder of the vulcanist school, he also eighteen years later in 1770 wrote a paper proposing that basalt originated as a precipitate from an aqueous fluid."
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    Words with the same meaning
    volcanist    Plutonist    Vulcanist