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11 June 2002
Cascades down Paliuli
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| Left. Head-on aerial view at 0700 of
Mother's Day flow plunging down Paliuli. Width of cascading flow is 150-200
m. Activity has somewhat diminished from that 2 hours earlier. Right.
Ground view of lava streaming down Paliuli at 0715. The new flow covers the
route of the Kalapana Trail up Paliuli. |
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View at 0445 of Mother's Day flow cascading down Paliuli.
View is from near the end of Chain of Craters Road. Eleven separate streams
pour down the pali, ten clustered together and one outlier to the left
(west, middle of view). Mist creates glow halo over the incandescent
cascades.
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14 June 2002
HALP and Mother's Day flows
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| Left. Aerial view of Mother's Day flow
moving toward, down, and away from Pailuli, the cliff in middle of view.
Darker flows were mainly emplaced in 1995. Dark swath near left edge
of view is fire line to contain grass fires started by the flow. Right. Twilight
view of single stream flowing down Paliuli, viewed from end of new visitor
trail from end of Chain of Craters Road. As darkness fell, hundred of
incandescent spots and patches appeared in this view. |
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Lava oozing from around edges of uplifted slab of crust along edge of
Mother's Day flow below Paliuli.
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Aerial view looking up Royal Gardens, showing narrow HALP
flow (center) and smoke from fire higher in the flow. The flow has just
passed Pikake Street on its way to Plumeria. Prince Street is west (left) of
flow, and Royal, east. Larger `a`a flow near
right edge of photo erupted in 1983-1984. Pu`u `O`o is in upper left.
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21 June 2002
HALP flow and new west arm of Mother's Day flow
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| Left. Inactive front of HALP flow in
Royal Gardens. The flow has crossed Pikake Street headed toward Plumeria.
Street just west (left) of flow is Prince. Royal bounds flow on east. Smoke
in upper center comes from active part of HALP flow in forest. Right.
Smoking tree along edge of HALP flow above Royal Gardens. Note the tangle
of fallen trees on the flow surface--typical of the margin of a flow in
forest. |
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Shiny Mother's Day flow above, on, and below Paliuli, which
is the pali in center of image. Steep slope in upper part of image is Pulama
pali. Pu`u `O`o is in far background above Pulama pali. Note the two west arms of the flow below Paliuli. The larger, older one ends about
600 m from Chain of Craters Road; it is currently stagnant. The smaller,
younger arm is advancing and may eventually overrun the older arm. Compare
with image below taken on June 14.
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22 June 2002
Mother's Day flow around dawn
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| Dribbles, trickles, and a couple of small
cascades on Paliuli between 0518 and 0530. Flow between camera and pali is
inflating, as is the flow the camera is on. Tinkling sounds like breaking
glass accompanied sporadic incandescent rock falls from the active streams. |
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| Thin, slowly advancing pahoehoe lobe in
western arm of Mother's Day flow below Paliuli, 0555. Note the small grass
fire at the margin of the lobe. |
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| Small breakouts from western arm of Mother's
Day flow at 0600-0601. In both views, lava flows out from beneath crust and
moves away from camera. |
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Complex breakout from near top of view makes its way toward
camera, partly on the surface and partly under crust. Near the tip of the
western arm of the Mother's Day flow at 0602.
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23 June 2002
Front of Mother's Day flow
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| Two views of front of western arm of Mother's
Day flow between Paliuli and the Chain of Craters Road. Left,
telephoto at 0517. Right, wide-angle at 0518. The lighted `ohi`a
tree was still standing at 0530, when the premises were vacated. In large
view, note the
incandescent patches on Pulama pali and on the slope between it and Paliuli. |
25 June 2002
Enjoying the early morning at tip of Mother's Day flow
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| End of west arm of Mother's Day flow on
coastal flat 450 m inland from Chain of Craters Road. Predawn views show
burning grass and `ohi`a as well as breakouts of lava from the flow. The
Strawberry Moon, full yesterday, lights the scene from above between 0517
and 0527, just before daybreak. |
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| Two views of spreading, slowly advancing
front of Mother's Day flow in same area as shown above. It is getting
lighter now, at 0532-0539, and details of the surrounding grassland can be
discerned. |
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Curling toe of lava spills from its cocoon of crust before
cooling and solidifying, ending its journey as liquid from at least 60 km
below the surface. It will never see the Chain of Craters Road. Toe is about
1 m across.
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28 June 2002
Paliuli area and East Pond Vent
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| Left. Looking north across Mother's
Day flow below Paliuli, the dark cliff extending across view. Smoke comes
from small fire along flow near base of Pulama pali. The southwest tip of
the flow, off the view to left, reaches to 430 m of the Chain of Craters
Road but is stagnant. Images taken on June 30 are from directly below where
the flow descends Paliuli. This part of the flow became very active after
this image was taken. Right. Close-in view of east side of cascade
area on Paliuli. Only one narrow stream is visible in image. |
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In Pu`u `O`o's crater, several vents are incandescent. This
one is at the East Pond Vent, where the top of a spatter cone has collapsed
to give a nearly vertical view of seething lava below. The hole is several
meters wide, and the lava is 5-10 m below the crater floor at the base of
the cone.
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30 June 2002
Paliuli cascades and trickles feeding inflating flow
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| Cascades and trickles form backdrop for
slowly oozing flow around 0515 on World Cup Sunday. The cascades are 25-30
m high. Imagination suggests Pele's bottom in right image. |
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| Predawn light provides more views of Paliuli
and the languid advance of the east side of the Mother's Day flow. See
first image in June 28 set below for area of these images. |
Map of flows from Pu`u `O`o: 21 May 2002
Map shows lava flows erupted during the 1983-present activity
of Pu`u `O`o and Kupaianaha (see large
map). The flows between January and April 2002 were fed by several rootless shields located directly above the lava tube at
elevations between 2,200 and 2,050 feet. Active flows in late May (shown in red;
still active on June 10)
originate from two sources, the area of the rootless shields and an area just
southwest of Pu`u `O`o. The two flows from the rootless shields are the
Boundary flow, along the edge of the national park, and the HALP flow, which is approaching the
uppermost part of Royal Gardens subdivision on May 21 (and has reached far
into the subdivision in early June).. The HALP flow entered
the subdivision during the night of May 22-23. From near Pu`u `O`o, the
Mother's Day flow passes along the west side of the flow field and into the
forest. By June 10, it had reached the base of Paliuli, the steep slope
below Pulama pali. The most recent ocean entries at East Kupapa`u
and Kamoamoa stopped in mid January and late January respectively.
Eruption-viewing opportunities change constantly, refer to the HVO home page for
current information. Those readers planning a visit to Kilauea or Mauna Loa volcanoes can get much useful
information from Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.
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