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19 November 2004 - 1210

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View from dark area in left image, showing spattering from incandescent hole in June 25 vent. The spattering culminated a gas-piston cycle, in which expanding gas lifts lava to the surface, eventually bursting out as spatter; lava then drops back down hole as volume of gas is lost. 1210.

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