Definition of "vulcanist" []

• Someone interested in volcanism, the study of volcanoes. (noun)
• A follower of Vulcanism (noun)

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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."