adverb
- in a manner relating to or produced by the action of hot water, especially underground water heated by geothermal energy
Usage: technical; geology
Examples
- Minerals are often deposited hydrothermally in veins within rock formations.
- The ore deposit was formed hydrothermally by hot mineral-rich fluids.
- Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor release hydrothermally heated water.
- These crystals grew hydrothermally over millions of years.
- The region's geothermal features were shaped hydrothermally by underground heat sources.