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The island of Hawaii is growing along it's southeast coast. Because it is so young
and isolated, the "Big Island" offers opportunities to study how ecological succession from bare rock to a mature ecosystem takes place.
Photograph by J. Kauahikaua, USGS
Photo and caption credit U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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Photograph by J.D. Griggs, USGS
Photo and caption credit U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
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Waterfalls and rainbows are common on the Big Island.
Courtesy of Hawaii Visitors Bureau
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Although Hawaii typically prompts visions of tropical paradise,
Mauna Kea, one of the island's tall volcanos, gets snow annually!
Photograph credit Don & Glenna Jacobs
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Slime mold
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