Hawaiian volcanoes seem to remain active for several hundred thousand, perhaps a million, years. Mauna Loa is well into its life span and will, eventually, be replaced by LÅÊ»ihi, now a large and growing seamount south of the island.
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Posted on 4:57 pm, Thursday, December 14, 2017.
Hawaiian volcanoes seem to remain active for several hundred thousand, perhaps a million, years. Mauna Loa is well into its life span and will, eventually, be replaced by LÅÊ»ihi, now a large and growing seamount south of the island.
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Posted on 3:57 pm, Thursday, November 29, 2012.
On Kilauea’s east rift zone, surface lava flows are still active on the coastal plain. Lava reached the ocean on Saturday, November 24, creating a very weak ocean entry with a small, sporadic plume.
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Posted on 4:19 am, Friday, October 22, 2010.
(Volcano Watch is a weekly article written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.) Hawaii is the quintessential “hotspot.†The geologic definition of a “hotspot†is that region of the Earth beneath an area that has experienced high levels of active volcanism for an extended period of time. The 5,800-km (3,200-mile) Hawaiian-Emperor […]
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