HAWAI'I PHOTO GALLERY
- Strong activity in and around Pu'u O'o in late 2003: erupting skylights, sheet lava flows and hornitos -
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28 November 2003: sheet flows |
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| In the middle of the flow field, ca. 3 km away from Pu'u O'o, a skylight is eruting, producing an eerie pulsating lava fountain sourrounded by a flat pond of lava, about 100 m in diameter. From time to time, surges of sheet flows are moving across the surface of the new shield. | ||
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The surface of sheet flows closely resembles that of a lava lake, with fractured fieces of floating crust. |
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A few days after, the small shield is no longer active and cooling. Only the glow beneath the crust indicates that it is still very hot underneath. |
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4 December 2003: Erupting hornito |
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Photos above and below: Located ca. 2 km SE of Pu'u O'o on the flat rootless shield complex, a small hornito is erupting throwing out spatter to up to 10 m. The hornito was active during approx. 1 hr., after which it had become sealed of. On the last 2 photographs below, only a small opening on the left side of the hornito was still ejecting jets of burn gas and, less and less frequently, small clots of lava. |
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7-11 December 2003: activity inside Pu'u O'o |
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| Aerial view of the NW rim of Pu'u O'o showing the internal strata of agglutinated spatter that compose the cone. | Aerial view onto the NE sector of Pu'u O'o's crater floor with 3 incandescent vents. | Aerial view of a typical surface flow on the lava flow field SE of Pu'u O'o. |
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Karl-Heinz inside the West Gap of Pu'u O'o observing an active vent in the center of the crater (middle and right photo). 11 December, 2004. |
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| Another active vent,-actually a pair of vents (one barely visible at the right end of the small pit crater behing the larger cone) seen near the N rim of Pu'u O'o. Photos taken on 11 December, 2004 | ||
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