hypervolcanic

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ volcanic

Adjective

hypervolcanic (not comparable)

  1. (volcanology) Relating to a hypervolcano.
    • 1997, Venus Revealed: A New Look Below The Clouds Of Our Mysteriious Twin Planet‎, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 124:
      One of the strangest places in the whole solar system is Jupiter's hypervolcanic Moon lo, which seems to be a little different every time we look at it.
    • 2013 September 25, Mike Wall, “Was Ancient Earth Like Jupiter's Super-Volcanic Moon Io?”, in space.com‎:
      Anybody wondering what Earth was like 4 billion years ago should cast an eye toward Jupiter's hypervolcanic moon Io, a new study suggests.
    • 2020 October 6, “Scientists discover 24 'superhabitable' planets with conditions that are better for life than Earth”, in reddit.com‎:
      We don't know if said planets even have an atmosphere (or one of reasonable density), if they get regularly bombarded by large asteroids, if they have liquid water, if they're truly temperate (runaway greenhouse effect ala Venus), if they're hypervolcanic, etc.
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