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...hole in the ocean floor more than 1,100 ft. deep and 6½ miles wide; islands 50 miles away were showered with fiery boulders weighing as much as 70 Ibs. The explosion caused 130-ft. tidal waves that swept over hundreds of villages on nearby islands, including Java and Sumatra, and drowned...
Though volcanoes can kill - eruptions have cost more than 100,000 lives in the past two centuries - they have a kindlier side as well. Some of the world's most fertile soil, like that on the Indonesian island of Java, has been created by lava and ash from volcanoes. The crystalline material, mostly silicates, is often rich ash only calcium and a variety of other elements. The lava and ash not only help the soil retain moisture but they weather rapidly and usually release valuable nutrients. Volcanic debris can also be used commercially as cement additives, as ingredients...
Farmer's Choice. Farm-fresh eggs; creamery butter; hearty Columbian java; stacks of extra chrisp toast with rasher of Canadian bacon...
...most significant, the creature had walked upright. Its foramen magnum, the hole through which the spinal cord enters the skull, was not in the rear of the skull as it is in an ape or any other animal that walks on all fours; as with Neanderthal. Peking and Java men, it was far enough forward in the skull to indicate that the spinal column was usually in a vertical position and that the young primate had been bipedal...
...Libby. This was followed by the invention of the potassium-argon method. Both gave scientists techniques by which they could accurately determine the age of the strata in which fossilized bones were found, and sometimes the age of the bones themselves. Using these new tools, they have determined that Java man and Peking man, now classified as Homo erectus, walked the earth more than 500,000 years...