Some Photos from our Regional Geology (Geology 210) Field Trip to the Big Island of Hawai’i. Click on Photogallery title above to link to photo thumbnails. Click on thumbnail to see slide show. Photos by Russ Clark.
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- Faulting due to earthquakes near the summit of Kilauea put this road around Halemaumau Crater out of commission.
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- Hiking across a lava plain on the slopes of Kilauea, while Pu’u O’o erupts in the background
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- Sunset from the summit of Mauna Kea (the highest insular peak in the world) … height = 13784 feet, wind = 50 mph, and temperature = 34 degrees … in May!
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- Just how hot was that lava … hot enough to cook that Jiffy-Pop popcorn! (No kidding!)
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- Unvestigating a 2-day old lava flow, while in the distance an active flow pours into the sea (note rising steam)
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- Steve Brown works out the Law of Superposition (hmmm … is the lava flow older or younger than the road?). That very helpful sign says that the road is closed to traffic. Just east of the (former) Wahaula Visitor Center.
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- Students
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- A thin glassy “skin” covers these fresh pahoehoe lava flows.
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- marching across the flows
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- Looking down a crack in a very recent lava flow … in fact, there’s still red-hot rock down there!