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Showing posts with label Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Show all posts
Monday, June 6, 2016

Pele is a Capricious Goddess...Today She Dispensed a Gift

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Halemaumau, on the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, is a crater within a caldera that has been simmering away for most of the last seven years...
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Friday, June 3, 2016

When You Say "He's Older Than the Hills" and You're Right....Pu'u Pua'i in Kilauea Iki

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It's true! I am two years older than the mountain behind me. This is Pu'u Pua'i, a cinder cone that grew during the Kilauea Ik...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Pele is a Capricious Goddess (reprised)...Part Two

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Continuing the story from the previous post , I had a second chance to see a volcano in action in 2004. I was the newly elected presiden...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Pele is a Capricious Goddess...Part One (A Return to the Realm of Fire)

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Note to my Geology 190 Students: this IS NOT a picture from my current visit. Lava is NOT flowing this way right now. I offer NO GUARANTEE...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

There Will Be Signs: This Month's Accretionary Wedge!

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This month's Accretionary Wedge , sponsored by Evelyn Mervine at Georneys , is on the subject of geology-related signs. The subject is a...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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