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Aerial view of a lava-tube skylight and lava flows, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i
Photograph by J. Kuahikaua on November 4, 1999

Aerial view of a skylight (orange glow) and a recent pahoehoe flow (shiny surface around skylight) that poured from the lava tube. The lava tube continues toward the trees in the distance, to where additional breakouts fed surface flows that poured down the steep Pulama pali (300-m tall fault scarp beyond trees). This view is toward the southeast; note shoreline of Kilauea Volcano in distance.

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Last modification: 17 December 1999 (SRB)