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Dave and Jim work diligently, taking specific gravity data from every box of core.
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Jim carefully copies down the specific gravities to be plotted and graphed later.
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Mike Garcia leads a group discussion on hyaloclastite at a beach near Kalapana during our field trip.
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Jim and Dave continue their specific gravity discussion at the beach.
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Super-volunteer Doug Hutcheon single-handedly supports an enormous basalt overhang.
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Fran, Dylan and Jim analyze the basalt wall that Doug graciously holds for them.
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A littoral, formed by the violent, explosive interaction that occurs when a lava flow meets the ocean.
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Angie, Rachel and Fran atop the littoral cone with the steam from the ocean entry behind them.
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Angie, Jim and Fran stand on a recent lava flow with the ocean entry in the background.
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An upclose shot of the ocean entry. This entry is fed by lava tube that flows underground.
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Mike cautiously treds out on a lava bench toward the ocean entry. Benches are deltas formed by cooled, hardened lava at an ocean entry.
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This sulfur stalactite was sampled by Mike to determined how it formed . . . . Don’t eat it!
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Mike also retrieved this minute old spatter formed by the ocean entry.
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Remnants of new flows can be seen on this pali.
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A group photo in front of the entry.
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Lava oozes through two holes that Dave had just punched through with a rock hammer.
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Doug scoops fresh lava with a rock hammer.
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This picture shows just how ropey pahoehoe forms. The brightest part of the fresh lava is about 1,100 degrees celcius.
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More ropey pahoehoe forming as it breaks through previously hardened lava. Jim estimated that 5 cubic meters of this lava flows down the tube every second!
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One last look at the brilliant orange light created by the ocean entry at dusk.
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