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…as metaphors for many different things, which is perhaps very obvious considering the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinson's poem and offers the following: "The loaded gun, the volcanic face, the emphatic thumb…

…! At night we arrived at Baquette, a village on the side of the dormant Baru Volcano, where we spent the night.         Day 4:         We began our day by visiting Volcan Baru National Park and taking a short hike to see the beautiful plants…

…conditions, so the initial organisms are ultimately defeated and disappear. Primary succession begins on a bare surface such as a rock face, a volcanic island, or land freshly exposed after a glacier scrapes it clean (Berg & Raven, 2004, figure 5.4, p. 87…

…the vegetation and related matters; rarely straying from direct description or using comparisons. Darwin in one of his few comparisons, relates the vegetation of the Galapagos Islands with that of 'the volcanic island of Fernando de Noronha,' unheard of by all…

…associated with major environmental changes and particularly changes in climate and sea level, which may be made worse by short-term catastrophes, such as extraterrestrial impacts or major volcanism. Examination of various mass extinction events in Earth's history…

…in Arizona is bell shaped and localized at the top of a volcanic intrusive center with the highest ore grades located in the upward branching stock. Ore minerals include a network of veinlets, scattered grains of bornite, chalcopyrite, and traces of native gold…

…important discovery: footprints frozen for 3.5 million years in volcanic mud that demonstrated that early hominids walked upright much earlier than previously thought. she found fossilized parts of the upper teeth and skull of a hominid no one had recorded…

…University. He was sent on a trip to explore the world and while he was on this journey, he became enthralled with biology and geology. He made and wrote observations about coral reefs (1842), and volcanic islands (1844), but his greatest biological observations…

…of organisms is not known; it must, however, have involved major changes in the environment. Their extinction has been attributed to many causes, including cosmic radiation, exploding supernova, world-wide fluctuations in sea level, acid rain caused by volcanic…

…, and Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. The great diversity of the African environment makes it difficult to generalize about the continent. While much of the continent consists of vast plains with little relief, there are also towering volcanic peaks and the largest…