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Rather wide breakout coming from inflating tumulus (right) and moving slowly toward photographer. Note deep, widely spaced corrugations and wrinkles in crust on decelerating flow.
Inflation of interior of flow is lifting edge of flow upward off ground surface, exposing incandescent interior. Old ground surface is in foreground and projects beneath incandescence. Width of view, about 2 meters. Image taken with flash