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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - February 23, 2002

By Kīlauea February 23, 2002
River of lava leaving rootless shield at 2150 feet

 

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Lava flow leaves perched pond on top of rootless shield (left part of image) and flows southwestward (right) as a channeled river several meters wide.
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River branches into two arms, the larger--the upper in the image--plunging down a cascade above which blue sulfurous fume hangs. Lava flows from right to left. The branch is also shown at the far right side of the left image.

 

Surge from front of `a`a flow below rootless shield at 2150-foot elevation 

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Series of four images taken in early morning sun showing surging advance of front of an `a`a flow, a distributary of the branch of the cascading river shown in right image above. This image taken at 07:12:14.

 

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07:12:40. Twenty-six seconds later, note how the large solid chunk of crust has tumbled downward, rotated, and broken into two large pieces.
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07:13:12. Twenty-two seconds later and from a slightly different vantage point, the surge from the flow front is ending, and the new lobe is spreading out and slowing.

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