Subject: Re: erupting vertex with molten vortex found
Date: Jul 28, 2003 @ 18:22
Author: acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m donner"<maxivan82@h...>
> wrote:quadripoint
> > & it may not even be a real boundary point for that matter
> > since it involves only the thin red sort of line we just met at
> mauna loa
> > trying to stretch adams thick red molten tripoint into a
> > & i still havent figured out what such a line is supposed toassume
> separate from what
>
> Yeah, that is a pretty mysterious red line. On the 1:25,000 map
> (found on Topozone), it's marked as a "Grant Boundary," so I
> that means it's an old property line that predates the NationalPark.
> I visited Hawaii Volcanoes NP back in 1996 on a geology classfield
> trip and can assure that while Halema'uma'u may not exactlybe a lake
> of molten lava at the moment, it's definitely an active vent. At theas I
> time I visited the active (as in lava come up out of the ground
> watched it) area was the Pu'u O'o eruption between the east riftzone
> of Kilauea and the coast, and from what I hear it's still going.You
> can hike along the Kilauea and Kilauea Iki calderas, but youcan only
> go up to the edges of Halema'uma'u and Mauna Ulu.
>
> Adam