Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A volcanist.
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- noun Someone interested in
volcanism , the study ofvolcanoes . - noun A follower of
Vulcanism
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Examples
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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.
Vulcanists & Neptunists Schneer, Cecil J. 1966
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