2000? You can't melt a rock with a propane torch which is 2500. Iron and steel melts at around 2600. Seems to me that liquid rock would be higher than 2000.
The yellow lava comes out of a lava tube like that at about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit or 1200-degress Celsius; it quickly cools down in the red-orange range to about 800-degrees-F. The open-air crusts it over right away but the yellow molten part will continue pushing it from underneath; causing uplift inflation and roping-banding type lava designs It retains its heat as it heads down a mountain like this by forming new lava tubes that insulates it; losing only a few degrees over many miles.
Great vid. My wife and I were there in August '09. There was no visible molten flow at the time and much of Crater Rim Rd was closed due to gas. This is beautiful.
Goodbye little ohia tree! Wow talk about going with the flow - the river of lava is incredible but the shifting menacing molten lava creatures are surreal! Wonderful footage.
Goodbye little ohia tree! Wow talk about going with the flow - the river of lava is incredible but the shifting menacing molten lava creatures are surreal! Wonderful footage.
uploaded on my bday!
GoogooEyedChihuahua 5 days ago
2000? You can't melt a rock with a propane torch which is 2500. Iron and steel melts at around 2600. Seems to me that liquid rock would be higher than 2000.
transdrole 9 months ago
Man, would you like at the heat rising? It looks so unstoppable.
marvelmax03191 9 months ago
you could have saved that plant...
d3008 10 months ago
The yellow lava comes out of a lava tube like that at about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit or 1200-degress Celsius; it quickly cools down in the red-orange range to about 800-degrees-F. The open-air crusts it over right away but the yellow molten part will continue pushing it from underneath; causing uplift inflation and roping-banding type lava designs It retains its heat as it heads down a mountain like this by forming new lava tubes that insulates it; losing only a few degrees over many miles.
KumukahiHawk 11 months ago
@KumukahiHawk Yes, it is very hot! I am doing a project about Kilauea and I am kinda getting carried away with it! But I don't care.
allison57100 2 months ago
what would be the temperature of that?
AiDz0r 11 months ago
Woah - wouldn't like to get stuck out there!!!! And I thought the snow was bad...
coloradocolts 1 year ago
Great vid. My wife and I were there in August '09. There was no visible molten flow at the time and much of Crater Rim Rd was closed due to gas. This is beautiful.
mrwinstonb 1 year ago
i would dump like 40 pounds of ice on it :P
coy088 1 year ago
@coy088 it would do nothing though there wouldent evean be any steam it wouldent evean bother it
april76301 1 year ago
beatiful, id like to see the lava destrying your hose =D
PLACEBOgarbage 1 year ago
This is really wonderful, Sparky - thanks!
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brynberg 1 year ago
Bel servizio. Complimenti.
TonyEtna1987 1 year ago
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Very nice. I would like to see lava for myself someday. In the mean time, I will continue to look for good video of it. Thank you for posting this.
bluebalute 1 year ago
Very nice. I would like to see lava for myself someday. In the mean time, I will continue to look for good video of it. Thank you for posting this.
bluebalute 1 year ago
Cool video, Sparky! Did you do that with Final Cut and the new MBP? How far away were you set up with the camera? - Wolfy
wolfy167 1 year ago
Goodbye little ohia tree! Wow talk about going with the flow - the river of lava is incredible but the shifting menacing molten lava creatures are surreal! Wonderful footage.
oonasong 1 year ago
Goodbye little ohia tree! Wow talk about going with the flow - the river of lava is incredible but the shifting menacing molten lava creatures are surreal! Wonderful footage.
oonasong 1 year ago