Joe Rogan

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.

American Comedian

Julian Baggini

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

British Author

Shanola Hampton

I swam in the Great Barrier Reef when I was five months pregnant. I went on the bullet train in Japan, which was so much fun, and getting to see Mount Fuji. I did Mykonos and its black volcanic beach. Most of the fun times I've had have something to do with a vacation. I love traveling.

American Actress

James Balog

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption - we're reminded of that.

American Photographer

Henry Rollins

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

American Musician

Elizabeth Flock

What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West.

American Author

Miroslav Lajcak

We cannot prevent hurricanes or earthquakes, floods or volcanic eruptions. But we can ensure that both people and communities are better prepared and more resilient.

Slovak Diplomat

Panos Cosmatos

Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!

Canadian Director

Edward Burnett Tylor

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

English Scientist

Sebastian Lelio

Rachel Weisz is amazing, instinctive, volcanic - an amazing force of nature.

Chilean Director

Use 'volcanic' when describing natural events involving molten rock or geothermal energy.

Natural Occurrences

'Volcanic' can describe rocks like basalt, formed from cooled lava.

Describing Rocks

In non-literal usage, 'volcanic' suggests something as powerful or intense as a volcano.

Figurative Use

'Volcanic' describes emotions that are suddenly and violently expressed.

Intense Emotions

When predicting someone's behavior, use 'volcanic' for unexpected, explosive reactions.

Unpredictable Reactions

Using 'volcanic' can exaggerate the intensity of a situation for dramatic effect.

Hyperbolic Descriptions

 those of you who've been to the beach, snorkeling, know corals are an amazing place to go -- full of life, some big animals, small animals, some nice, some dangerous, sharks, whales, all that stuff. They need to be protected from humanity. They're great places. But what you probably don't know is in the very deep part of the ocean, we have volcanic eruptions.

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 earth we also find them preserved within volcanic materials for billions of years and they look a lot like these microbial tubules we also study impact craters these are observed on every planetary body in the solar system and they're created when an asteroid or comet hits the planet or a moon they have a very

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 characterized by a volume of erupted material, many times greater than that of ordinary volcanoes. And while the popular image of volcanic destruction is molten rock engulfing the surrounding land, far greater devastation is caused by what remains in the air.

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 Here again is that ancient volcanic landscape in the Pilbara. Little did I know that our research here would provide another clue to that origin-of-life puzzle. It was on my first field trip here, toward the end of a full, long week mapping project,

This ancient rock is...

 This silica-enriched water enters the voids inside pieces of volcanic rock, prehistoric river beds, wood and even the bones of ancient creatures. Gradually, the water starts to evaporate, and the silica-solution begins forming a gel,

The most colorful...

 and mid-ocean ridges which are underwater chains of volcanic mountains no matter their shape or size all volcanoes emit gas and molten rock the journey of these emissions begins deep underground in the earth's core

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 a unique blend of bits from its particular inhabitants. Household dust also contains substances that blow in from the wider world. Depending on the local geology, finely ground quartz, coal, or volcanic ash

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 About 66 million years ago, something terrible happened to life on our planet. Ecosystems were hit with a double blow as massive volcanic eruptions filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide

When will the next mass...

 were caused by cataclysmic volcanic eruptions it's not the lava or ash that wiped out life but an invisible gas released by

Is Humanity The Next...

 io is the most volcanic world in the solar system

Volcanic

Related to volcanoes or the powerful forces that create them.

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Having or showing very strong or energetic emotions.

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