HAWAI'I PHOTO GALLERY
- Impressions from Pu'u O'o's long-lived eruption in 2000/2001 -
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Part I: Lava entering the sea (late Nov. - mid Dec. 2000) |
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Lava entering the sea from 2 spots at the edge of the bench at night of 30 Nov.2000. Stars above the glowing steam cloud. |
Occasionally mixing of boiling water and the hot lava causes small explosions.(28 Nov. 2000). |
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Lava entering the sea (12 Dec. 2000). |
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Small explosions caused by rapid vaporization of sea water (28 Dec. 2000). |
Steam plume at the lava ocean entry (28 Dec. 2000). |
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Pulama pali and a close-up of fast running liquid lava in small channels. |
A lava flow destroying forest seen at night. |
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At the end of a 3-days long pause lava breaks out from the old tube system, descending as pahoehoe and aa flows the slopes of the pali below. |
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Pahoehoe and aa lava channels. |
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Left: the awesome spectacle of lavaflows (mostly aa) at night. |
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Below: aa flows devastate the rests of a small kipkua (forested island between older flows). |
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© Tom Pfeiffer, page last modified on 11 November 2003.