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« on: April 08, 2018, 12:19:19 pm »

Hawaii 'lava dome' revealed in throwback image
Posted on Sunday, 8 April, 2018




The lava fountain formed a remarkably symmetrical dome-like shape. Image Credit: USGS
This remarkable dome of churning molten magma was photographed in Hawaii by the US Geological Survey.
The incredible spectacle, which climbed as high as 65ft over a period of three days, was captured on camera during the 5-year-long Mauna Ulu eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano back in 1969.

Lava fountains like this one occur when gas bubbles from vents, fissures and lava tubes rapidly form and cause a huge jet of lava to shoot up in to the air.

Incredibly, the largest of them can grow to over 500 meters.

"A remarkably symmetrical dome fountain occasionally 20m high but usually half that, often welled from the eastern compartment [of the vents] for periods of several hours," the researchers wrote.

"Most of the lava from this fountain flowed away from the vent, but some formed a narrow river that poured back into the western compartment."

"Every few seconds, gases burst explosively from the western compartment, carrying spatter possibly derived from the lava drainback."
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2018, 12:21:17 pm »


This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Mesmerising

You're looking at a very rare type of lava fountain.
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On 24 May 1969, a deep rumbling started within Kīlauea, the largest of the volcanoes comprising the island of Hawai'i.

Those were the first moments of the historical Mauna Ulu eruption - a spectacular outpour of lava that lasted for a total of 1,774 days, at the time becoming the longest Kīlauea eruption in at least two millennia.

Staff at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory had noted that the magma reservoir underneath the tip of the volcano had started to swell, but they still didn't expect the magnificent activity that lasted well into the summer of 1974.

So huge was this eruption that the cooling lava created a whole new landscape on the side of Kīlauea, earning the name of "growing mountain", or Mauna Ulu.

In 1969 alone, twelve huge lava fountains erupted at the site, and much of this activity has been captured for posterity in glorious photographs.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently reminded the world of the Mauna Ulu eruption with a throwback photo to one of the rarest types of a lava fountain you can possibly get:

    Dome fountain of episode 10, October 10–13, 1969, eruption of Kilauea Volcano. This dome fountain is about 20 m (65 ft) high. Symmetrical dome fountains such as this are rare. #Tbt #HI @Volcanoes_NPS pic.twitter.com/sKSQaVINKs
    — USGS (@USGS) March 29, 2018

Usually, lava just explodes all over the place without any rhyme or reason, making this beautiful, perfectly rounded dome fountain all the more special. (By the way, the foreground is not the ocean, as it might seem at first glance - it's a landscape of cooled lava.)

Here's another version of the photo, taken on 11 October 1969. The original tweet notes its height at roughly 20 metres (65 feet), but according to USGS records, at some point the fountain may have towered as high as 75 metres (246 feet):
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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2018, 12:22:14 pm »

Lava fountains, in all their blazing glory of raw exploding geology, can reach the dizzying heights of 500 metres, according to USGS.

They typically happen when lava shoots out of an isolated vent or a fissure in the volcano, or when water in a confined space gets inside a lava tube.
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2018, 12:22:34 pm »

And, if you like this photo, Mauna Ulu certainly produced more incredible scenery.

On June 25 of the same year, a massive 220-metre (722-foot) fountain of lava shot up from the volcano:

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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2018, 12:23:12 pm »

On August 15, there was this little splatter of boiling hot rock, just 8 metres (26 feet) high but shaped rather like a searing mushroom cloud. At that point in the eruption, activity like this was almost constantly happening at Mauna Ulu:
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One of the most spectacular events during the eruption were these 100-metre high 'lava falls' overflowing the 'Alae Crater on Kīlauea, on August 5.

"For the two seasoned observers who witnessed this awe-inspiring event, nothing else matched it during the entire Mauna Ulu eruption," USGS writes on their website.
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Even after that stunning event, Kīlauea was far from done inspiring awe in its observers. Another massive lava fountain shot up in the air on October 20, and in this photo you can even see a geologist standing on a viewing platform about 800 metres (2,625 feet) away.

Despite the considerable distance, observers still had to hide behind a stone wall as the heat was so intense - sometimes dry grass right next to the platform would even catch fire.
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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2018, 12:25:13 pm »

Of course, Kīlauea is far from done. Only nine years later, the Pu'u 'Ō'ō eruption began - and it is still active today, producing regular spectacles of lava explosions.

What's particularly crazy is that's not even the longest continually active volcano on our planet. According to Guinness World Records, this honour belongs to Mt Stromboli in Italy.

You can see the full gallery of the Mauna Ulu eruption on the USGS website.
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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2018, 12:25:25 pm »

https://www.sciencealert.com/usgs-kilauea-mauna-ulu-volcano-eruption-rare-lava-dome-fountain-1969
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https://www.sciencealert.com/usgs-kilauea-mauna-ulu-volcano-eruption-rare-lava-dome-fountain-1969
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