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...ction to Hawaiian place names. This is followed by four sections on the physical, biotic, cultural, and social aspects of the Hawai'i environment. Geology, climate, the ocean, water, soils, and astronomy are among the topics discussed in "The Physical Environment." Next the special character of terrestrial and marine ecosystems is described in "The Biotic Environment." ...

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... and Lana'i -- 11 -- Maui -- 14 -- Hawai'i -- 17 -- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 23 -- Hawaiian Place Names -- 26 -- Mapping and Geodesy -- 29 -- Geology -- 37 -- Geothermal Resources -- 47 -- Climate -- 49 -- Hawai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geography -- 64 -- Natural Hazards -- 67 -- Earthquakes -- 69 -- Volcanic Hazards on the Island of Hawai...

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...ling of Capt. Cook -- A fight in the water -- Death of Cook - - Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook's body -- Slaughter... ...had been built, and that a sight of one of these monstrous fish frightened his mariners into a condition of panic. ASTOUNDING ADVENTURES OF HANNO. Han... ...ense vessel was propelled by 4000 rowers, besides which she had a crew of 3000 marines, and a great number of servants. The oars used in propelling he... ...ho slumber in its bosom. The earliest sea tales are of shipwreck; the earliest mariners made the ocean their winding sheet. Every storm claims its vic... ... too greatly enlarged by its discoverers. It stands to reason, even to ancient mariner reason, that there could be no creature so large as to cause a ... .... Banks and Dr. Solander, spent several days familiarizing themselves with the geology of the island. With a fresh supply of provisions Cook departed ...

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... from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i 11 Schofeld Barracks (U.S. Army, 25th Infantry Di... ...is dedicated to understanding the biological and ecological diversity of marine microorganisms. C-MORE director David Karl, a member of the Nation... ...he National Academy of Sciences, says life has its origins in the sea in marine microbes that are, to this day, the most abundant life forms on Ea... ...ascinated by these invisible, single-celled life forms that dominate all marine ecosystems. Microbes are extraordinarily diverse in structure, gen... ...a and the dynamics of earth-forming forces. Others, such as Professor of Geology and Geophysics Charles “Chip” Fletcher, study aspects of sea-leve... ...te agencies in the United States and Japan, notably the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology. IPRC’s director, Professor Kevin Ham... ...chemical data for Mars. Taylor is also a world-renowned expert in lunar geology, and has been instrumental in proposing new missions to the Moon, ...

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...crawl, tnidf^oon, roll, scull and Austrn liiin HtrokeK, and did the " sub- marine," ' ijorpoise, " " sjiar- buoy " and "logroll." The por- poise imita... ...1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H.—College, Geology 1. Goveriimeut 1, Mathematics 1, Mathematics 2, Pliysics 1. Wednesd... ... the volnnie to Prof. Russell for review. ProfesBor Wahl gave a lecture in Geology 4 yesterday on the influ- ence of geology on the fiooplo and countr... ...curing cups for the winner and runner-up of the tour- nament, f The annual Geology I trip to the Heltlerborg mountains in New York for this year has b... ...bsence in Italy, France and England, and Prof, Cleland will probably study geology in Europe, Williams Musical Clubs Give Con- cert at Great Bartingft... ...hn W. Redick '07. At the Helderberg Mountains The fifth annual tour of the Geology 1 classes to the Helder- berg Slountaius, fifteen miles southwest o... ...f, as last year, will 1)0 engaged as Inotnrer in zoology nt the Woods Hole Marine Bio- logioul laboratory. He will con- tinue his researches' on the e...

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...e more aware of some of the sciences, particularly astronomy, biology and geology, and as they try to fit their scriptural beliefs into the sciences ... ... more verifiable. Astronomy has many aspects that are exactly measurable. Geology has a large number of measurable areas. But when we come to physio... ...ges in life forms during the last four million years. But the sciences of geology, biology and chemistry all point strongly in the direction of evolu... ... of other scientists from many fields, from anthropology to zoology, from geology to genetics, and from biology to paleontology. Criticizing Darwin ... ... for a while. ―Then you remember Jenny, she married that merchant marine officer. I guess his months away from women pushed him into the por...

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...ations; I would sit on a bench under that deluge of foliage: I would list geology, hydraulics, painting, sculpture, geometry, anatomy, medi- cine... ... ...res of rivers and their permanency. These studies should be of value to mariners. Francesco finds that much of the information I had recorded is s... ...te? Of course, dedication...but I have explained...art, music, sculpture, geology, mechanics...not one is bastard. DEDICATE: A priest outlaws dist... ... no doubt the swiftest. The jig maker’s safest. The priest’s dullest. The mariner’s loneliest. The lover’s saddest. VOICES FROM THE PAST 404 ... ...y, the whole constabulary force of the city police, the entire disposable marine of the United States, with its artillery loaded for action, all mar...

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... precisely what nearly all field Archeology, all field Paleontology all field Geology, all field Meteorology, all field THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chap... ...preme coordinating power-commander-instructor. Is this a good way to train marines or human beings or children? Is that what all the rest of th... ...seen. Every American death was glorified to the hilt. Single deaths of one Marine; were blazed out on National Media. Each single one was honored...

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... his laboratory assistant. I freely confess that I was exceedingly fond of geology and all its kindred sciences; the blood of a mineralogist was in my... ... We had become engaged unknown to my uncle, who was too much taken up with geology to be able to enter into such feelings as ours. Grauben was a lovel... ...ocks of the transition or silurian* system. “It is evident,” I cried, “the marine deposits formed in the second period, these shales, limestones, and ... ... can’t explain the inexplicable, but you will soon see and understand that geology has not yet learnt all it has to learn.” “Then let us go,” I answer... ...the sea. We stood amazed, thunderstruck, at the presence of such a herd of marine monsters. They were of supernatural dimensions; the smallest of them... ... protest against being so widely mistaken as to have taken an island for a marine monster. But the evidence is against me, and I have to confess my er... ...rney to the Interior of the Earth CHAPTER XXXVII THE LIEDENBROCK MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY How shall I describe the strange series of passions which in succes... ...it- ants of the upper earth? Until the present time we had seen alive only marine monsters and fishes. Might not some liv- ing man, some native of the... ... out of hell; so we presented ourselves in the humble guise of shipwrecked mariners. It was not so glorious, but it was safer. On my way I could hear ...

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...at it was not. I contend, that to have uttered the truths of astronomy, of geology, &c., at the era of new-born Chris- tianity, was not only below and... ...e language of scientific truth in dealing with the phenomena of astronomy, geology, or of any merely human knowledge. Now, thirdly and lastly, in orde... ...ust, or by another which is popular and erring. Now, on the other hand, in geology and cosmology, the case is stronger. Here there is no opening for a... ...he general outline of such a succession will be more and more confirmed as geology advances. But as to the time, the duration, of this successive evol... ...le, not more, and not less, applies to a revealed astronomy, or a revealed geology. As a fact, there is no such astronomy or geology: as a possibility... ... was fit for any thing, from the wooden shoon of Cambridge up to the Horse Marines. Now, on the other hand, you, common-place reader, that (as an old ...

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... knowledge and status for the whole body of the officers of the mercantile marine. He organised for us courses of professional lectures, St. John ambu... ... it were the relation of a journey where nothing but the distances and the geology of a new country should be set down; the glimpses of strange beasts... ...ranted.” Well, no. It might not have been. That august academical body the Marine Department of the Board of Trade takes nothing for granted in the gr... ...f temperance could not be more pitilessly fierce in his rectitude than the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. As I have been face to face at var... ...ed steps. It was a fact, I said to myself, that I was now a British master mariner beyond a doubt. It was not that I had an exaggerated sense of that ...

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...ading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geology, &c., yet one things helps another very much. I don’t work quite as... ...ourney by land, no small proof of the confi- dence inspired by so recent a mariner. He was sorry to lose the sight of the further visitation, and in h... ...o quite relieved me from my duties as skipper, and I have no trouble about marine stores, ship- ping seamen, navigating the vessel now. I cannot be to... ...e for ‘Bisope’? So they discharged a volley of ar- rows, and a sergeant of marines was killed. This was an at- tack on the British flag, and it was se...

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... signals it, drops rapidly on board of it: “Stop!” fiercely interjects the marine police- man from the ship’s deck.—”Why stop? What use have you for m... ...or you?” and the oars begin playing.— ”Stop, or I’ll shoot you!” cries the marine policeman, draw- ing a pistol.—”No, you won’t.”—”I will!”—”If you do... ...ife of John Sterling care for. Southey’s Amadis has amused me; and Lyell’s Geology interested me. The latter gives one the same sort of bewildering vi... ...ut I suppose there will be some six weeks of unpleasant tem- perature. The marine climate of this part of England will, no doubt, modify and mollify t... ...interest to my walks; 169 Thomas Carlyle and have begun to feel my way in Geology. I have now learnt to recognize three or four of the common kinds o...

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...services of St. Andrew’s. By this time aunt and niece had descended to the Marine esplanade, a broad road, on one side of which there was a low sea wa... ... print, but wherein ‘Harry Beaufoy’ is instructed in the chief outlines of geology in a manner only perhaps infe- rior to that of “Madame How and Lady... ...ans—not of society,’ interposed Aunt Jane. ‘Oh yes! Harry said he had gone geology mad, and I really did get you a bit of something at Vale Leston, Fe... ...s and say— ‘I only meant that we were the real cause. Fergus is wild about geology, and took away a stone that was put to show where the cliff was uns... ...s. If that great honour, a walk with papa, was granted, out he popped from Marine Hotel, or a seat in the public gardens, evidently lying in ambush to...

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...ITTEN in all sorts of places. V erbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship frozen fast in a river in the middle of a town; and... ...it were, the relation of a journey where nothing but the distances and the geology of a new country should be set down; the glimpses of strange beasts... ...temper- ance could not be more pitilessly fierce in his rectitude than the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. As I have been face to face at var... ... steps. It was a fact, I said to my- self, that I was now a British master mariner beyond a doubt. 94 A Personal Record It was not that I had an exag...

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.... It is blowing fresh. The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motio... ...ose mermaids are about no good, and we had best not ex- amine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched pickled victims.... ...s was only a quiet old gentleman, husband to Mrs. Eagles, with a taste for geology, and not tall enough to reach anybody’s ears. The Eagles then patro...

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...nt derision — “Sir Kay, forsooth! Oh, call me pet names, dearest, call me a marine! In twice a thousand years shall the unholy inven tion of man la... ...s by geologic periods. But that neat idea hit the boy in a blank place, for geology hadn’t been invented yet. However, I made a note of the remark, ... ...n full canonicals. Conspicuous, both for location and personal outfit, stood Marinel, a hermit of the quack doctor species, to introduce the sick. All... ...ld answer me better than the buttons; all hands were happy and nobody hurt. Marinel took the patients as they came. He examined the candidate; if he ... ... the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America...

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...sses. His talent for drawing shows that Averil’s was worth culture. If our geology alarm Richard, tell him that I think it safer to get it over young,... ...of times shall ever shock”!’ and he began to hum it. ‘That is the Sicilian Mariners’ hymn,’ said Averil. ‘I can sing you that whenever you please.’ ‘T... ...aid Ethel. ‘She was the daughter of Mrs. Ledwich’s brother, the Colonel of Marines, and used in old times to be with her aunt; there used to be urgent...

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...ar future by what has oc curred in late years, what an opportunity is here! Geology never had such a chance, nor such exact data to argue from! Life ... ...—left him at the wheel, at the foot of 63, to run off the watch. The ancient mariner went up through the chute, and down the river outside; and up the... ...county seat of a great and impor tant county; town with a big United States marine hospital; town of innumerable fights—an inquest every day; town wh... ...ad ever set his foot in a pilot house! Many and many a time did this ancient mariner appear on the scene in the above fashion, and spread disaster and... ...esh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner’s dis carded one, and have done my best to make it remain what i...

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... mastery of Mangnall’s Ques- tions, and a ladylike knowledge of botany and geology, the knack of making poetry, the power of rattling sonatas in the H... .... It is blowing fresh. The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motio... ...ose mermaids are about no good, and we had best not ex- amine the fiendish marine cannibals, revelling and feasting on their wretched pickled victims.... ...s was only a quiet old gentleman, husband to Mrs. Eagles, with a taste for geology, and not tall enough to reach anybody’s ears. The Eagles then patro...

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...of our voyage, and a sketch of those obser- vations in Natural History and Geology, which I think will possess some interest for the general reader. I... ...he ‘Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geology of South America.’ The sixth volume of the ‘Geological Transactions... ...ffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamic plants. The geology of this island is the most interesting part of its natural history.... ... of the age of the streams. During our stay, I observed the habits of some marine animals. A large Aplysia is very common. This sea-slug is about five... ...train of ink to hide the hole into which it had crawled. While looking for marine animals, with my head about two feet above the rocky shore, I was mo... ...water quite salt. I have no doubt many interest- ing facts, in relation to marine and fresh water ani- mals, might be observed in this chain of lagoon... .... Gay* has stated that he found in the neighbourhood of Rio, shells of the marine genera solen and mytilus, and fresh wa- ter ampullariae, living toge... ...at in all the different kinds of glow- worms, shining elaters, and various marine animals (such as the crustacea, medusae, nereidae, a coral- line of ... ...l- ingly makes room for the Zorillo. CHAPTER V BAHIA BLANCA Bahia Blanca — Geology — Numerous gigantic Quadrupeds —Recent Extinction — Longevity of sp...

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...or if this had been so, it would have been fatal to my theory; inasmuch as geology plainly tells us that small gen- era have in the lapse of time ofte... ...rited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley ... ...ntermittent ac- tion of natural selection accords perfectly well with what geology tells us of the rate and manner at which 104 On the Origin of Spec... ...xtinction. — This subject will be more fully dis- cussed in our chapter on Geology; but it must be here alluded to from being intimately connected wit... ...the intermediate zones. By changes in the form of the land and of climate, marine areas now continuous must often have existed within recent times in ... ...ng the bases of retreating cliffs rounded boulders, all thickly clothed by marine productions, showing how little they are abraded and how seldom they... ...gical period. Along the whole west coast, which is inhabited by a peculiar marine fauna, tertiary beds are so scantily developed, that no record of se... ...e so scantily developed, that no record of several successive and peculiar marine faunas will probably be preserved to a distant age. A little reflect... ... formation throughout Eu- rope been correlated with perfect accuracy. With marine animals of all kinds, we may safely infer a large amount of migratio...

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...s and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contemporary... ...g to her. The condition of Kate is exactly that of Coleridge’s ‘An - cient Mariner.’ But possibly, reader, you may be amongst the many careless reader... ...me to enlighten you, else you ruin 105 Thomas de Quincey the story of the mariner; and by losing all its pathos, lose half the jewels of its beauty. ... ...ose half the jewels of its beauty. There are three readers of the ‘Ancient Mariner.’ The first is gross enough to fancy all the imagery of the mariner... ... febrile delirium; really seen, but not seen as an exter- nal reality. The mariner had caught the pestilential fever, which carried off all his mates;... ...essions upon the age of our earth, &c., as to class him with those who use geology, cosmology, &c., for purposes of attack, or insinua- tion against t... ...at it was not. I contend, that to have uttered the truths of astronomy, of geology, &c., at the era of new-born Chris- tianity, was not only below the... ...ust, or by another which is popular and erring. Now, on the other hand, in geology and cosmology, the case is still stronger. Here there is no opening... ...at succession will doubtless be more and more confirmed and illustrated as geology advances. But as to the time, the duration, of this cosmogony, it i...

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... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ...y that has become self-combustion:— as when, according to Neptuno-Plutonic Geology, the World is all decayed down into due attritus of this sort; and ... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singular (...

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...rute.” “I hope Fergus was not in a scrape.” “Oh no, it is not his way. His geology is a great safeguard. If it had been Wilfred I might have been afra... ... meeting with the Travis Underwoods, who had disposed of themselves at the Marine Hotel, while they came up with a select party of three Vanderkists t... ... encounter a scolding from Marilda, so he sent Adrian and Fely down to the Marine Hotel to fetch Franceska, while he stole a moment or two for greetin...

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...ontain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by ship wrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of... ...re in managing More arts than those wherein you clerks proceed.” As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past ... ... more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. Unlike the mariner, they have the constantly vary ing panorama of the shore to reliev... ...h the savage inhabitants of some remote isle stand to the mysterious white mariner, the child of the sun?—as if we were to have dealings with an anim... ... winds. He looks up at the stranger, half pleased, half astonished, with a mariner’s eye, as if he were a dolphin within cast. If men will believe it,... ... clearest days. The Friend is some fair floating isle of palms eluding the mariner in Pacific seas. Many are the dangers to be en countered, equinoct... .... The ancients can still speak to us with authority, even on the themes of geology and chemis try, though these studies are thought to have had their...

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... For Louis had withal a kind of insight in him. So, when a new Minister of Marine, or what else it might be, came announcing his new era, the Scarlet-... ... that has become self-combustion:—as when, accord- ing to Neptuno-Plutonic Geology, the World is all decayed down into due attritus of this sort; and ... ...t the wine-merchant has become an impromptu cannoneer. See Georget, of the Marine Service, fresh from Brest, ply the King of Siam’s cannon. Singu- lar... ...t spleen; denounces an Aristocrat Bertrand-Moleville traitorous Aristocrat Marine-Minister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in...

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...onies? Coombe heard of a pony this morning; it is to be seen at the ‘Jolly Mariner,’ and he will take us to look at it.” “The ‘Jolly Mariner!’ It is a... ...ch—the latter place under the inspection of Coombe, whom, since the “Jolly Mariner” proposal, Rachel did not in the least trust; all the less when she... ...ire of the boys that he should take them to inspect the pony at the “Jolly Mariner,” and took leave with—”I shall see you to-morrow.” “You knew him al... ...n search of ruins, camps, churches, and towers. The colonel had a turn for geology, though a wan- dering life even with an Indian baggage-train had sa... ...meter, would certainly wring it by building hideous cottages, or desirable marine residences. The value would be enhanced so as to be equal to more th...