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    Lava Flow Hazard Zones are areas designated by the United States Geological Survey for the Island of Hawaiʻi and Maui in the United States. First prepared...
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    In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions...
    16 KB (1,449 words) - 21:13, 5 August 2024
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    A lava tube, or pyroduct, is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava from a volcanic vent that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow. If lava...
    12 KB (1,285 words) - 04:52, 7 April 2024
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    "Kīlauea lower East Rift Zone lava flows and fissures, June 5, 10:00 a.m. HST". USGS. June 5, 2018. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June...
    67 KB (6,053 words) - 16:42, 18 April 2024
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    Fat Lava: West German Ceramics of the 1960s & 70s". plant.furniture. 2017-12-20. Archived from the original on 2023-01-12. Retrieved 2023-01-12. Hill...
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    Lava lakes are large volumes of molten lava, usually basaltic, contained in a volcanic vent, crater, or broad depression. The term is used to describe...
    24 KB (1,660 words) - 17:03, 3 April 2024
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    Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface...
    56 KB (6,577 words) - 18:17, 8 June 2024
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    Kīlauea (section Rift zones)
    summit caldera, hosted an active lava lake. Kīlauea erupted nearly continuously from vents on its eastern rift zone between January 1983 and April 2018...
    101 KB (10,271 words) - 00:25, 18 August 2024
  • advancing lava flow by pumping sea water onto it, which was successful in preventing the loss of the harbour. Part of the East volcanic zone (EVZ). See...
    220 KB (16,948 words) - 15:43, 28 July 2024
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    in the crater after the end of August. Lava began emerging from a series of cracks in the northeast rift zone and spread slowly east and south as a perched...
    20 KB (2,320 words) - 19:10, 17 April 2024
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    Shield volcano (redirect from Lava shield)
    eruption of highly fluid (low viscosity) lava, which travels farther and forms thinner flows than the more viscous lava erupted from a stratovolcano. Repeated...
    38 KB (4,309 words) - 19:16, 23 July 2024
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    Stratovolcano (section Lava)
    volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra. Unlike shield volcanoes, stratovolcanoes are characterized by...
    19 KB (2,347 words) - 10:57, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lava Beds National Monument
    Lava Beds National Monument is located in northeastern California, in Siskiyou and Modoc counties. The monument lies on the northeastern flank of Medicine...
    29 KB (2,572 words) - 03:42, 13 May 2024
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    and rift zones of Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes are rated Hazard Zone 1. Using this same scale, preliminary estimates of lava-flow hazard zones on Maui...
    29 KB (2,658 words) - 23:26, 1 August 2024
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    the 6 km permanent danger zone. The advisory was given a day after the explosion. On August 12, a new 30–50 meter high lava dome appeared in the summit...
    73 KB (7,140 words) - 12:26, 5 August 2024
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    fissure on the volcano's rift zone and feeds lava streams that flow downslope. In central-vent eruptions, a fountain of lava can spurt to a height of 300...
    6 KB (727 words) - 19:03, 31 July 2024
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    In June 2014, a lava flow dubbed the June 27th flow started flowing from a vent of a spatter cone called Puʻu ʻŌʻō on the east rift zone of Kīlauea Volcano...
    23 KB (2,483 words) - 23:48, 25 May 2024
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    subduction zone. Volcanoes in this belt include Mount Noel, the Clisbako Caldera Complex, Lightning Peak, Black Dome Mountain, and many lava flows. Eruptions...
    94 KB (9,604 words) - 21:27, 30 July 2024
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    Hudson Volcano (category South Volcanic Zone)
    century. It formed a 12-kilometre-high (7.5 mi) eruption column and pyroclastic flows within the caldera. A 4-kilometre-long (2.5 mi) lava flow was emplaced...
    80 KB (8,906 words) - 15:40, 18 August 2024
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    these include Eldgjá, source of the largest lava eruption in human history. Some of the various eruptions of lava, gas and ash have been both destructive...
    45 KB (3,846 words) - 20:20, 29 July 2024
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