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A section of the flow margin near flow front, showing a continuous ...

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A section of the flow margin near the flow front, showing a continuous horizontal incandescent crack that indicates ongoing flow inflation. HVO geologist for scale. The flow here was only about a meter thick, but slightly farther upslope where the lava has had more time to inflate the thickness was closer to two meters.