Stretching more than 4 miles long and 4,000 feet wide, the picturesque pile of blocky andesite known as the Parkdale Lava Flow offers panoramic, backcountry views of snow-capped mountains and ...

The ʻaʻa lava flows actually produced surprisingly little melt, though the snow beneath them would be gone in less than 24 hours. That’s partly because the blocky crust armoring the underside ...

Five dropped onto red-hot flows, splashing lava 200 feet into ... Lava comes in three types (highly viscous, deep “blocky” lava; chunky, fast-moving ‘a ‘a, and smooth pahoehoe), and ...

Lava’s Edge Trail wanders through ... The acres of raw, blocky basalt look as fresh as the flows shown spilling from Kilauea on the nightly news. Over the past 900 years, plant life has ...

It turned out that blocky 'a'a lavas advanced on top of the snowpack with melt water accumulating beneath the lava flow. Pahoehoe lavas, by contrast, advanced under or inside the snowpack ...

We know return to your regularly scheduled program... Lava flow levees: These banks that help form channelized lava flows are called "levees" as they really are walls built up on the sides of the ...

Rhyolitic lava flows are viscous in nature and form lava domes that are thick and blocky. Yellowstone’s caldera forming super-eruptions also are rhyolitic in composition. This study produced a ...

HONOLULU — Prayer, bombs, walls — over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava from Hawaii’s volcanoes as it lumbered toward roads, homes and infrastructure.