Hawai'i, Kilauea in April 2005

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Peles tears and hair

 

Cinema


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Beside the black metallic gleaming outthrows, a lot of glas fibres was placed like spider webs around some parts of the east pond cone. Thinking about escaping from this big spider the real reason for this volcanic anomaly was the high silicate proportion of the lava. Like volcanic glass (obsidian) the ejecta trialed fibres up to several meters.

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Maps of the region

       

Source: The HVO - Site

On this fiery tour: Martin Rietze, Richard Roscoe, Thorsten Boeckel

 

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© 2005 photos & text by Th. Boeckel (tb), photos by Martin Rietze (mr)