[Rockhounds] Re: Rockhounds Digest, Vol 44, Issue 7
ROBERT A SANTEE
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Tue Jan 8 13:41:03 PST 2008
Thanks mike bob.
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> 1. RE: AD: Claude S. Bullen Collection Sale (Peter Sparks)
> 2. Re: Hawaii's 25th lava anniversary PS (Kitty & Bill Heacox)
> 3. RE: Volcanos, earthquakes and things (Glenn Wimpee)
> 4. Re: National Academy of Science evolution /creationism
> brochure (Alan Goldstein)
> 5. Re: Volcanos, earthquakes and things (betdav97 at aol.com)
> 6. Re: Volcanos, earthquakes and things (Kitty & Bill Heacox)
> 7. RE: Hawaii's 25th lava anniversary (Margaret Malm)
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 21:06:54 -0500
> From: "Peter Sparks" <zebulon at isr.umich.edu>
> Subject: [Rockhounds] RE: AD: Claude S. Bullen Collection Sale
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> Cc: Jason <jdglenn at hotmail.com>
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> I've updated the web site so it has lots of pictures and links to higher
> res ones for those folks with non-dialup connections. I also wanted to
> clarify a couple points.
>
> The "sealed bid" means you submit a value on the item that you're willing
> to pay, and other bidders do likewise. Because it's "sealed" no one knows
> how much anyone else has bid. When the bidding has closed the winner is
> the one with the highest bid and is notified with details for payment.
> Thus there's no interactive bid and counterbid like eBay, oral auctions,
> or silent auctions. There are only five items listed for the sealed bid.
>
> The "sale" is just that --- a normal rockhound two-day sale without
> bidding; items are priced. Jason and I are looking at a fair method for
> allowing absentee buyers a chance to purchase items but in-person sales
> will take priority. Final details on this issue will be on the website.
>
> -- Peter Sparks
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> Cc: 'Jason'
> Subject: AD: Claude S. Bullen Collection Sale
>
> <snip>
>
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~zebulon/
>
> <snip>
>
> *** Sealed Bid *** - Bids due Feb 8, 2008 midnight
>
> <snip>
>
> *** Sale *** - on Saturday Jan 26, 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday Jan 27, 10 am - 5
> pm, 206 Ballard, Ypsilanti, MI
>
> <snip>
>
> You can contact me or Jason Glenn (non-member to this list, I believe) off
> the list for more details.
>
> Please put "Bullen Sale" in the subject line of your email.
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> Peter Sparks
> zebulon at isr.umich.edu
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> Jason Glenn
> jdglenn at hotmail.com
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> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:11:27 -1000
> From: Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Hawaii's 25th lava anniversary PS
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> For some reason the link I added for item number 9 in the Eruption
> Timeline did not show up in the post as it appeared to my
> computer. So I'll type it again rather than copy & paste as I did before:
>
> http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2002/Jul/
>
> Aloha, Kitty
>
> At 03:55 PM 1/6/2008, you wrote:
>
>
>>Three days ago Hawaii celebrated the 25th anniversary of continuous lava
>>activity at Kilauea Volcano. If you google:
>> < Kilauea eruption 25th anniversary >
>>you'll find several stories. Bill and I recall seeing TV news
>>clips when it began. I was teaching at Hawaii Prep Academy in
>>Waimea, so I couldn't get away on weekdays to make the nearly 2-hour
>>drive to the volcano. I recall one Saturday when the morning radio
>>news said there was high fountaining I took off as soon as Saturday
>>morning classes were over (private boarding school---they had regular
>>classes from 8 to 11am on Saturdays) and headed south. I reached
>>the place where one can see Pu'u O'o from the road, and there was nothing
>>to be seen but a few wisps of smoke. I looked at the time:
>>12:55pm. I drove on to the Park Headquarters and asked at the
>>information desk. They said the fountaining had stopped at
>>12:47. I'd missed it by a measly 8 minutes!
>>
>>
>>In 1990 we watched with fascination, sadness and awe as lava inexorably
>>advanced toward the village of Kalapana and eventually destroyed almost
>>all the homes and businesses. The flows were mostly a'a, the
>>clinky, chunky, slow-moving stuff, so people had plenty of time to remove
>>their valuables and pets from their homes, and some even valiantly fought
>>the walls of red stuff with garden hoses. Fortunately there were no
>>injuries or fatalities, because the pahoehoe flows---which can move as
>>fast as 35mph I've heard---were farther away from the actual
>>village. There was one dramatic moment caught on TV news
>>video: a wall of lava about 8 feet high had been gradually
>>advancing towards a beautiful log home; the family (parents and 3
>>teen-age kids) who lived there were frantically spraying the lava and the
>>house with garden hoses. The lava stopped for couple of
>>hours, and the exhausted family rested. Then there was some
>>crackling sounds and the wall began to glow and move forward again.
>>Authorities forced the family and news crews to move back. As the
>>lava got within 3 feet of the house suddenly the entire structure burst
>>into flame and was reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes.
>>
>>
>>
>>Several years later when lava was going into the sea, again I was
>>teaching (this time in a public school in the town of Laupahoehoe, 30
>>miles north of Hilo), again I could not get free during the school day,
>>so my husband, Bill, and brother, Dan went down to take a look (Bill
>>didn't have to teach a class at the university that day, and my brother
>>is retired). They came back that evening with wonderful accounts of
>>being able to climb down to a black sand beach and walk right up to the
>>lava. They poked sticks and tossed rocks into it, and had to
>>carefully shield their faces when the breeze drifted the steam cloud
>>toward them that forms when the lava strikes the ocean. That was a
>>Friday, so the next morning I was off at dawn to see what they had
>>seen. By the time I reached that location, the lava had changed
>>course and was now a half mile away, with extremely rough terrain in
>>between, way too far for me to hike. So it wasn't until September
>>22, 2002 that I was able to get up close and personal with the red stuff,
>>and at that time I wrote a detailed account for this List, and Kreigh put
>>it---with pictures---on his website [
>>
>>http://Tomaszewski.net/Kreigh/Minerals/FieldTrips.shtml
>>]
>>
>>
>>Below is a summary of the past 25 years at Kilauea. At number 9
>>below is a link to photos of lava entering the sea. There are many
>>days, months and even years of such photos, so beware...you may end up
>>spending a while ohhhing and ahhhhing at the spectacular sights.
>>
>>
>>Aloha, Kitty
>>
>>
>>Eruption Timeline
>>
>>
>>Note: Information For This Abbreviated Timeline Comes From The U.S.
>>Geological Survey.
>>
>>
>>1. January 3, 1983: Lava erupts from a line of fissures in a remote part
>>of the East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano. Over time, activity converges
>>around a single vent.
>>
>>
>>2. 1983 to 1986: Episodes of high fountaining turn this vent, known as
>>"Pu'u 'O'o," into an 836-foot cone.
>>
>>
>>3. July 1986: Pu'u 'O'o falls silent as lava reaches the surface from a
>>new vent to the northeast. The vent is called
>>"Kupaianaha."
>>
>>
>>4. 1990: The village of Kalapana is destroyed when lava from Kupaianaha
>>breaks out of its tube system and takes a new path to the sea. The
>>historic Star of the Sea Painted Church is hoisted from its foundations
>>and moved to safety.
>>
>>
>>5. November 1991: New fissures open between Pu'u 'O'o and Kupaianaha, and
>>erupt for three weeks.
>>
>>
>>6. Feb. 7, 1992: Kupaianaha vent stops erupting. Ten days later, lava
>>returns to Pu'u 'O'o. A lava shield grows against the southwest side of
>>the cone for the next five years.
>>
>>
>>7. Jan. 30, 1997: Pu'u 'O'o partially collapses and new fissures appear
>>around Napau Crater. The episode lasts for about 24 hours.
>>
>>
>>8. Feb. 24, 1997: After a 23-day pause, lava returns to Pu'u 'O'o and
>>once again begins a march to the sea. This episode will continue for the
>>next 10 years.
>>
>>
>>9. July 21, 2002: Lava enters the ocean with spectacular effects
>>recorded in photos at:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>10. June 19, 2007: A brief eruption on the flank of Kane Nui O Hamo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:57:45 -0600
> From: Glenn Wimpee <pawpawtiger at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things
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> JR and Ya'll,
>
> Actually there are lots and lots of actively erupting volcanoes and
> earthquakes going on around the earth and especially along the Pacific
> Rim.
>
> A great earthquake link is
> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
>
> And a couple of volcano links
>
> http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/hvostatus.php for Kilauea
>
> http://volcano.und.edu/ has links to volcano info all over the world
>
> And I've found these since joining this list and learning from ya'll!!!
>
> Thanks so much, especially to Pete and Kitty!
>
> I don't think the world is ending in the next few days.
> Glenn
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:42:13 -0800
>
>> Subject: [Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things
>> > Hi:
>> > Well, Martha got a book about the 1906 SF earthquake, which is loaded
>> > with geo facts. She reads me some of the factoids that strike her as
>> > interesting or surprising.
>> > One recent one was that there was a huge volcanic eruption (Vesuvius I
>> > think?) 17 days before the 'quake. Then today on one of the news shows
>> > there was a mention of someone being killed in an eruption. We didn't
>> > catch where, so she said "Google it" so I did.
>> > Much to my surprise, there were a lot of new volcanic eruptions in the
>> > news today! One was in Chile, where they were rescuing tourists, and
>> > one was in the Red Sea, near Yemen, where they talked about how bright
>> > the glow was from the lava. I think there were others too...
>> > Should I be strapping the bookcases to the wall? I'm being
>> > deliberately - what's the word, maybe obtuse? - here, but isn't it a
>> > little odd to have several volcanoes go off at once?
>> > I'm in WV, where there are several thousand feet of stable sedimentary
>> > rock between me and the real basement.
>> > I did feel an earthquake here once, 3.? on the Richter scale, while I
>> > was driving on a bridge over the Kanawha River, I thought a towboat had
>> > hit a bridge pier - it wasn't too long after the Silver Bridge
>> > collapsed. It would have been really scary in an underground coal mine,
>> > you bet!
>> > Speaking of Richter, Martha tells me (the earthquake book says) he was
>> > an avid nudist and famously sexually active - I guess that's easier in
>> > California. Is there some famous geo-gossip about him beyond his work
>> > on earthquakes?
>> > JR
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 22:16:47 -0500
> From: "Alan Goldstein" <deepskyspy at insightbb.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] National Academy of Science evolution
> /creationism brochure
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> There are a variety of gradations between the eye spot (the eye patch is
> something you where over it) and the eye we know, love and use to read
> computer monitors with.
>
> Alan
>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] National Academy of Science evolution
> /creationismbrochure
>
>
>> There are all sorts of proofs of the age of the planet, one of my
>> favorites
>> is the Oklo reactors:
>>
>> <http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0010.shtml>
>>
>> The real extremists in the creationism wing deny that the earth is
>> billions
>> of years old and deny the fossil record for the existence of ancient
>> life.
>> Those people are impossible to reason with but IMO are a tiny fraction of
>> Christians in the US.
>>
>> There are plenty of people who have a rational approach and who believe
>> that
>> God is Truth and he can never lie. The fossil and isotopic evidence
>> exists
>> and, barring some very outre explanation, are the proof of the age of the
>> planet. To believe otherwise would say that you thought God had lied by
>> placing these proofs before us.
>>
>> Now the point where people like me differ from the humanist line is that
>> we
>> believe that while evolution was taking place it was being guided by God.
>> For those that deny this they are just acting as proponents of their own
>> religion. There is no proof either way and assuming one or the other way
>> is
>> true is just a decision based on faith. If the science community just
>> followed the proper course, that of exploring the mechanisms of evolution
>> or
>> cosmology then they would eliminate a lot of the conflict. Science is
>> about
>> HOW and should not be about WHY. Why is theology.
>>
>> There are plenty of discrepancies in evolution and in cosmology. The
>> evolution of the eye is, IMO, unexplained since there don't seem to be
>> any
>> intermediate forms between the simple eye patch and the fully developed
>> eye.
>> I've seen a number of sarcastic essays written by evolutionists about
>> this
>> subject but they all seem to be lacking in any sort of proof. They all
>> seem
>> to take the 'only a moron could say something like that' line but don't
>> provide any explanation of the 'missing links'.
>>
>> In cosmology of course the Anthropic question is unanswered:
>>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle>
>>
>> The odds of a randomly selected universe having the precise physical
>> constants that permit life is something like 1 in 10^50th. A very very
>> small
>> number. String theory has proposed that there are something like 10^50th
>> parallel universes and we just happen to live in the one and only one
>> that
>> supports life. Talk about the universal lottery. Of course string theory
>> is
>> totally untestable and thus is not science anyway.
>>
>> But IMO there is no reason to let fanatics on either side influence us.
>> If
>> we just stick to the hows of why things happen then there is no argument.
>>
>> BK
>>
>>
>>
>> So, instead of risking a flame I would wonder how you can dismiss fossil
>>> records without denying the existence of tectonic plate movement.
>>> Or do they do that too?
>>> Tectonics deliver existing proof of the age of our planet, right?
>>>
>>> Axel
>>>
>>
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> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:47:58 -0500
> From: betdav97 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things
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>
> JR,
>
> ? Actually the Bluefield-Princeton, and western Virginia area, is fairly
> active.
>
> Where you live is stable.
> Dave
>
>
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> From: J. R. Hodel <jr50wv at yahoo.com>
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Sent: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 8:42 pm
> Subject: [Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things
>
>
>
>
> Hi:
>
> Well, Martha got a book about the 1906 SF earthquake, which is loaded with
> geo
> facts. She reads me some of the factoids that strike her as interesting
> or
> surprising.
>
> One recent one was that there was a huge volcanic eruption (Vesuvius I
> think?)
> 17 days before the 'quake. Then today on one of the news shows there was a
> mention of someone being killed in an eruption. We didn't catch where, so
> she
> said "Google it" so I did.
>
> Much to my surprise, there were a lot of new volcanic eruptions in the
> news
> today! One was in Chile, where they were rescuing tourists, and one was
> in the
> Red Sea, near Yemen, where they talked about how bright the glow was from
> the
> lava. I think there were others too...
>
> Should I be strapping the bookcases to the wall? I'm being deliberately -
> what's the word, maybe obtuse? - here, but isn't it a little odd to have
> several
> volcanoes go off at once?
>
> I'm in WV, where there are several thousand feet of stable sedimentary
> rock
> between me and the real basement.
>
> I did feel an earthquake here once, 3.? on the Richter scale, while I was
> driving on a bridge over the Kanawha River, I thought a towboat had hit a
> bridge
> pier - it wasn't too long after the Silver Bridge collapsed. It would
> have been
> really scary in an underground coal mine, you bet!
>
> Speaking of Richter, Martha tells me (the earthquake book says) he was an
> avid
> nudist and famously sexually active - I guess that's easier in California.
> Is
> there some famous geo-gossip about him beyond his work on earthquakes?
>
> JR
>
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> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:47:05 -1000
> From: Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Volcanos, earthquakes and things
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> I remember as a young child (more than half a century ago) asking my
> parents why it seemed that when there was an earthquake on one side
> of the world there often was another one soon after on the other side
> of the world. My father (who was an electrical engineer at Bell
> Labs) said it was just coincidence. My mom (who was the Franklin
> fluorescent mineral fan, but with no college education) used the
> opportunity to show me a globe and see that some of those events that
> I thought were directly opposite, were not (we often forget how truly
> large the Pacific Ocean is!). I had actually thought maybe there
> was a kind of slosh effect from the liquid magma in the center of the
> earth. My dad simply laughed, and my mom said it was a good idea but
> scientists hadn't talked about it.
>
> Now, JR & Martha, here is a copy of part of an email I sent just this
> last August 16. I sent it to a friend of ours, George Polman, a
> geologist and fluorescent mineral dealer, after he asked how we were
> doing after news of a hurricane heading for Hawaii:
>
> <Yeah, we've had a scary several days here on the Big
> Island. Hurricane Flossie actually petered out last night leaving
> only a lot of rain and high surf---and frayed nerves. Then yesterday
> we had a few hours of worry about a potential tsunami caused by the
> earthquake in Peru, which also turned out not to happen. And we've
> had three earthquakes here this week, the last was at 3 this morning
> at 4.5 intensity. Do you have any ideas as a geologist if there is
> any connection between earthquakes around the world? August 8: Java
> - 7.6, August 12: Spain- 5.4, August 13: Kilauea 5.4, August 15: Peru
> - 7.9, August 16: Kilauea 4.5. I'd imagine the ones here are
> different because they are due to magma shifting. As for other
> volcanoes: Philippines' Bulusan July 31, Indonesia's Sulawesi August
> 14, and Alaska's Cleveland in the Aleutians is beginning to act up a
> bit. What do you think? >
>
> His answer was that there was no evidence that he knew of to connect
> earthquakes in different locations.
>
> Aloha, Kitty
>
>
>
>
>
> At 03:42 PM 1/6/2008, you wrote:
>>Hi:
>>
>>Well, Martha got a book about the 1906 SF earthquake, which is
>>loaded with geo facts. She reads me some of the factoids that
>>strike her as interesting or surprising.
>>
>>One recent one was that there was a huge volcanic eruption
>>(Vesuvius I think?) 17 days before the 'quake. Then today on one of
>>the news shows there was a mention of someone being killed in an
>>eruption. We didn't catch where, so she said "Google it" so I did.
>>
>>Much to my surprise, there were a lot of new volcanic eruptions in
>>the news today! One was in Chile, where they were rescuing
>>tourists, and one was in the Red Sea, near Yemen, where they talked
>>about how bright the glow was from the lava. I think there were others
>>too...
>>
>>Should I be strapping the bookcases to the wall? I'm being
>>deliberately - what's the word, maybe obtuse? - here, but isn't it a
>>little odd to have several volcanoes go off at once?
>>
>>I'm in WV, where there are several thousand feet of stable
>>sedimentary rock between me and the real basement.
>>
>>I did feel an earthquake here once, 3.? on the Richter scale, while
>>I was driving on a bridge over the Kanawha River, I thought a
>>towboat had hit a bridge pier - it wasn't too long after the Silver
>>Bridge collapsed. It would have been really scary in an underground
>>coal mine, you bet!
>>
>>Speaking of Richter, Martha tells me (the earthquake book says) he
>>was an avid nudist and famously sexually active - I guess that's
>>easier in California. Is there some famous geo-gossip about him
>>beyond his work on earthquakes?
>>
>>JR
>>
>>
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> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:32:16 -0700
> From: "Margaret Malm" <kadok at infowest.com>
> Subject: RE: [Rockhounds] Hawaii's 25th lava anniversary
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> Thanks, Kitty.
> I was there at the time of the Lunar Eclipse in ???; Geology Field Trip
> fro
> Southern Utah U. We drove to where the lava had crossed the road, and
> walked across the lava until we could see the glowing rock dripping off
> into
> the ocean. We saw a twisted metal framework one place where some small
> building had succumbed. And also a palm tree trunk laying on the ground
> that
> had not been completely consumed in the fire. Rocks with a golden coating,
> and also beautiful blue ones. Angel hair.
> We could also see steam rising from the crater when we were up there.
>
> Margaret
>
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> [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at lists.drizzle.com] On Behalf Of Kitty & Bill
> Heacox
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 6:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Hawaii's 25th lava anniversary
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>
> Three days ago Hawaii celebrated the 25th anniversary of continuous lava
> activity at Kilauea Volcano. If you google:
> < Kilauea eruption 25th anniversary >
> you'll find several stories. Bill and I recall seeing TV news
> clips when it began. I was teaching at Hawaii Prep Academy in
> Waimea, so I couldn't get away on weekdays to make the nearly 2-hour
> drive to the volcano. I recall one Saturday when the morning radio
> news said there was high fountaining I took off as soon as Saturday
> morning classes were over (private boarding school---they had regular
> classes from 8 to 11am on Saturdays) and headed south. I reached
> the place where one can see Pu'u O'o from the road, and there was nothing
> to be seen but a few wisps of smoke. I looked at the time:
> 12:55pm. I drove on to the Park Headquarters and asked at the
> information desk. They said the fountaining had stopped at
> 12:47. I'd missed it by a measly 8 minutes!
>
>
> In 1990 we watched with fascination, sadness and awe as lava inexorably
> advanced toward the village of Kalapana and eventually destroyed almost
> all the homes and businesses. The flows were mostly a'a, the
> clinky, chunky, slow-moving stuff, so people had plenty of time to remove
> their valuables and pets from their homes, and some even valiantly fought
> the walls of red stuff with garden hoses. Fortunately there were no
> injuries or fatalities, because the pahoehoe flows---which can move as
> fast as 35mph I've heard---were farther away from the actual
> village. There was one dramatic moment caught on TV news
> video: a wall of lava about 8 feet high had been gradually
> advancing towards a beautiful log home; the family (parents and 3
> teen-age kids) who lived there were frantically spraying the lava and the
> house with garden hoses. The lava stopped for couple of
> hours, and the exhausted family rested. Then there was some
> crackling sounds and the wall began to glow and move forward again.
> Authorities forced the family and news crews to move back. As the
> lava got within 3 feet of the house suddenly the entire structure burst
> into flame and was reduced to ashes in a matter of minutes.
>
>
>
> Several years later when lava was going into the sea, again I was
> teaching (this time in a public school in the town of Laupahoehoe, 30
> miles north of Hilo), again I could not get free during the school day,
> so my husband, Bill, and brother, Dan went down to take a look (Bill
> didn't have to teach a class at the university that day, and my brother
> is retired). They came back that evening with wonderful accounts of
> being able to climb down to a black sand beach and walk right up to the
> lava. They poked sticks and tossed rocks into it, and had to
> carefully shield their faces when the breeze drifted the steam cloud
> toward them that forms when the lava strikes the ocean. That was a
> Friday, so the next morning I was off at dawn to see what they had
> seen. By the time I reached that location, the lava had changed
> course and was now a half mile away, with extremely rough terrain in
> between, way too far for me to hike. So it wasn't until September
> 22, 2002 that I was able to get up close and personal with the red stuff,
> and at that time I wrote a detailed account for this List, and Kreigh put
> it---with pictures---on his website [
>
> http://Tomaszewski.net/Kreigh/Minerals/FieldTrips.shtml
> ]
>
>
> Below is a summary of the past 25 years at Kilauea. At number 9
> below is a link to photos of lava entering the sea. There are many
> days, months and even years of such photos, so beware...you may end up
> spending a while ohhhing and ahhhhing at the spectacular sights.
>
>
> Aloha, Kitty
>
>
> Eruption Timeline
>
>
> Note: Information For This Abbreviated Timeline Comes From The U.S.
> Geological Survey.
>
>
> 1. January 3, 1983: Lava erupts from a line of fissures in a remote part
> of the East Rift Zone of Kilauea Volcano. Over time, activity converges
> around a single vent.
>
>
> 2. 1983 to 1986: Episodes of high fountaining turn this vent, known as
> "Pu'u 'O'o," into an 836-foot cone.
>
>
> 3. July 1986: Pu'u 'O'o falls silent as lava reaches the surface from a
> new vent to the northeast. The vent is called
> "Kupaianaha."
>
>
> 4. 1990: The village of Kalapana is destroyed when lava from Kupaianaha
> breaks out of its tube system and takes a new path to the sea. The
> historic Star of the Sea Painted Church is hoisted from its foundations
> and moved to safety.
>
>
> 5. November 1991: New fissures open between Pu'u 'O'o and Kupaianaha, and
> erupt for three weeks.
>
>
> 6. Feb. 7, 1992: Kupaianaha vent stops erupting. Ten days later, lava
> returns to Pu'u 'O'o. A lava shield grows against the southwest side of
> the cone for the next five years.
>
>
> 7. Jan. 30, 1997: Pu'u 'O'o partially collapses and new fissures appear
> around Napau Crater. The episode lasts for about 24 hours.
>
>
> 8. Feb. 24, 1997: After a 23-day pause, lava returns to Pu'u 'O'o and
> once again begins a march to the sea. This episode will continue for the
> next 10 years.
>
>
> 9. July 21, 2002: Lava enters the ocean with spectacular effects
> recorded in photos at:
>
>
>
>
> 10. June 19, 2007: A brief eruption on the flank of Kane Nui O Hamo
>
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