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Kilauea Volcano Molten Lava April 2010.m4v

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Uploaded by on Apr 20, 2010

Molten lava is once again flowing down the mountain towards the sea on the Big Island of Hawaii. Please excuse the camera shake, it was very windy with gusts ;)

Oh-- and a big thank you to John Mayer for allowing me to use his music!

~~ Aloha,
Leigh (Lee)

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  • 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.

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  • uploaded on my bday!

  • @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.

  • 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.

  • Man, would you like at the heat rising? It looks so unstoppable.

  • you could have saved that plant...

  • what would be the temperature of that?

  • Woah - wouldn't like to get stuck out there!!!! And I thought the snow was bad...

  • 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.

  • @coy088 it would do nothing though there wouldent evean be any steam it wouldent evean bother it

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