Photo & Video Chronology - Kilauea Archive

27 October 2000

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Left: Pu`u `O`o crater, seen from the air, is visible intermittently through gas and clouds that hang closely on the cone. Right: Brief glimpses of Pu`u `O`o crater floor revealed no incandescence or visible lava.

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Left: Above Pulama pali, an active pahoehoe breakout at the 1,790-foot elevation extends down to about the 1,650-foot elevation. This image is of a  new skylight on this breakout at the 1,750-foot elevation. Right: Another view through the skylight at 1,750-foot elevation into the central stream of lava coming from the breakout at 1,790 feet.

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Left: Flames from burning vegetation under new pahoehoe play through an older `a`a flow along the 1,790-foot elevation breakout. Right: Also at 1,790 feet, burning wood under the flow sends flames through a cylindrical chimney (likely a tree mold) in the pahoehoe.

28 October 2000

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Left: The Kamokuna ocean entry glows dimly at sunset while the bench grows quietly into the sea. Such activity is accompanied by minor explosions where the surf and lava interact at the newly forming edge of the bench. Right: Recently active littoral cones, yet to be coated with sulfur and other solids deposited from the plume, stand among remnants of collapsed littoral cones on the bench.
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Left: The previously bright skylight at the 250-foot elevation now is dark and entirely crusted over, with only a little glow visible within the tube. Right: A recently found skylight at the 270-foot elevation displays shallow moving lava within the tube.

Large map. Map shows lava flows (red) active in September 2000 above and on Pulama pali and on the coastal plain, as well as flows erupted earlier from Pu`u `O`o and Kupaianaha. The eastern part of the active flow field (orange) extended to the Royal Gardens private access road on January 11 and entered the sea near Waha`ula on February 3-14, 2000. That flow stopped in  mid-August. A new flow (red) descended  Pulama pali and crossed the coastal plain in September, and lava is now entering the sea at Kamokuna, an area about 1.5 km west-southwest of Waha`ula. 

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