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Pu`u `O`o - Kupaianaha Eruption of Kilauea Volcano - April 21, 2000

Kilauea Volcano
 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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