Spewing volcanoes and forbidding lava fields make for a land of beautiful, barren expanses and infinite adventure.
Shepherds wander the slopes, herding goats along the trails and alpine expanses, beginning the cheese-making process.
Voelker had sought out the sweeping expanses of the southern Plains, home to the Comanche Nation.
When that ice melts, huge expanses of darker, open ocean water absorb the heat instead, warming things up.
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So how do the crew keep themselves occupied on those slow-going crawls across vast expanses like the Pacific?
It came to full fruition later, in the singing expanses of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and other Abstract Expressionists.
Lengthy expanses of warm, muddy water outside the facility would serve as a graveyard to any escaped coldwater fish.
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Between mid-August and mid-September, the park offers an accessible, southern look at the spring wildflower bloom, which carpets the country's western expanses.
' Expanses of black rock swoop down to the shore, where lighthouses look little more than golf tees perched on the cliffs.
And as ornamentation grew more restrained in the later 1820s, Phyfe concentrated on the glories of large expanses of matched veneers.
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Though its clothes are basic, its retail spaces are novel and edgy, with sleek lines, wide-open expanses and flashing video monitors.
He expanded wealth creating infrastructure such as freeways and the State Water Project, which created vast expanses of new, highly fertile farmland.
Crossing expanses never remotely surveyed, they will gather 2.25 million data points about salinity, water temperature, waves, weather, fluorescence and dissolved oxygen.
As for the beach, I'm inspired by the great expanses of sea and sky, and the feel of the sun on my skin.
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For a long time, planes were just a tool for him, enabling him to quickly cover the broad Texas expanses between his natural gas wells.
It provides long and fertile planting seasons on large expanses of unfrozen land essential to feed 8 billion to 9 billion people around the world.
Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back.
In Uruguay, isolated surfing inlets are dotted along the coast -- disconnected, simple, seaside hamlets flanked inland by expanses of green acres populated by the occasional grass-munching cow.
We roped up at the Standhardt Col, a pass overlooking the Southern Patagonia Ice Field, one of the largest expanses of frozen water on the planet.
Allied with the island's compact urban environment -- huge expanses of open space are rare -- and you get an unhealthy "visual lifestyle, " says the health ministry's Rajan.
Because they knew that the long, flat expanses of wall would lack Cret's enriching classical ornament, they did not go to the original quarries for the closest match.
The movie develops its own kind of goofy tensions: Johnson renders the sunlit expanses of a school yard as menacing as the darkened rooms of a Warner Bros. thriller.
The gameplay varies from huge open battlefield expanses to tighter combat inside a building on the brink of collapse to a driving sequence in an SUV under attack from a chopper.
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.
So what does it mean to be financially prepared for retirement? (Emotionally prepared is a whole different matter.) Well, it basically means having enough income to cover your expanses throughout your retirement.
According to the organisation, the setting up of Enniskillen lifeboat station is part of a pilot scheme to extend its lifesaving skills by providing a rescue service on large expanses of inland waters.
Embedding the structural support in the core made it possible to cantilever the roof and thus wrap a glass facade around the building, using vast expanses of insulated, triple-pane glass and mahogany mullions.
There's a fine, often surprising selection of large, angry, mature abstractions, with their jagged, flamelike shapes and troweled-on expanses of thick pigment, their labored surfaces seductive in the flood of light against warm concrete walls.
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Several hours from the South Pole, in the barren expanses of western Antarctica, a small team of American researchers has just finished their second field-season with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Ice Core project.
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