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Two toes of Banana flow kiss. Note flakes of crust on underlying flow littering top of toes, picked up as front of toes inflated. Two such flakes are just being caught in lava and uplifted by left toe.
Some of action in breakouts of above images. Here lava is moving from under twisted crust. Crust is actively rotating clockwise as lava leaves from under it. Width of view, 2 m.
Stream of lava in complex of breakouts. Width of stream, about 3 m. Note that lava is spreading laterally from under the crust that covers most of stream.