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Photo and Video Chronology - Kīlauea - May 22, 2003

By Kīlauea May 22, 2003

Lava on Highcastle beach

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Lava flow on Highcastle beach is so sluggish and crusted that it has only a few incandescent points, barely visible in lower left in this dawn show.

 

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Lava at front of beach, thickening and trying to start lava delta into water.
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New tip of lava flow on Highcastle beach, breaking out and trying, like its neighbor to west (shown above right), to form delta.
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Looking southwest across lava-covered Highcastle beach. Compare with next-to-last image in yesterday's album. Person gives scale on top of sea cliff just beyond lava trickle, which feeds small surface flow. West Highcastle and its large tumulus in background.

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