Best Answer: The official reason that Japan gives for whale hunting is scientific research. They say the only way to determine the whale's age is to kill it.t is likely this is the real reason for the whale hunting. In recent years activists have disrupted whale hunting in the arctic. AND The Japanese eat the whales. The meat is sold in Japanese markets and in a few Japanese restaurants.
Adj. 1. nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; figurative language. figurative.
The term âmassiveâ has several (although related) meanings in geology but here it means that the rock (obsidian is a rock type, not a mineral) is homogenous. It lacks layering, cleavage, foliation, phenocrysts, etc. It is just a piece of volcanic glass without further conditions. In the majority of cases obsidian solidified subaerially (on land). Volcanic glass that formed underwater has alternative names like tachylite and hyaloclastite.