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Pu`u `O`o
- Kupaianaha Eruption of Kilauea Volcano - April 21, 2000
Photographs by USGS
photo and caption credit
U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
A lava river viewed through a
skylight in a Smoke-flow tube near the rootless shields downstream from Pu`u `O`o.
Darker orange indicates the hot wall of the tube. The temperature is about 1160
degrees C for the lava and about 1000 degrees for the incandescent wall rock.
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