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National Park, and having gathered every continuously created new land, pouring
kind of information about Kilauea, lava from Kilauea's Pu'u O'o vent, which
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and so has formed more than one square mile of
forth, I can attest that this is easily the new land along the shore. Visitors often
coolest representation I've ever seen of witness lava flowing down toward the sea
this park, and maybe any National Park. I from the vantage at the end of Chain Of
love it! Thank goodness for super cool Craters Road. At times the view is close,
computer technology to help me “paint” at other times it is from afar. The view just
my maps! Last February I and my wife after sunset may be spectacular as the lava
ventured to the very end of Chain of glows brilliantly. Steam explodes from
Craters Road. After a considerable hike at the sea where the molten lava hits the
sunset, from a distance we were able to crashing waves. In the Kilauea Caldera
watch the lava flow down the huge slope, steam rises and sometimes sputters out of
glowing brilliantly in the dark. Wow! hundreds of vents in a still-cooling lava
Before dark the huge steam plume could field. The sights and sounds are awesome.
be seen billowing into the humid
atmosphere. Across the sky at cloud level HAWAIIAN AIR POLLUTION
a long plume of volcanic smog, or “VOG” Volcanic Smog, or "VOG", is formed by
extended from Pu'u O'o across the lava gasses spewing out of Kilauea's Pu'u O'o
fields toward the sea. In had heard that this vent. 2000 tons of sulfur dioxide and other
plume represented some 2000 tons of noxious fumes rise into the atmosphere
sulfur dioxide and other noxious gasses every day. Hawaii's trade winds diminish
every single day. Now I understood what the effect, but the absence of typical trades
the distant colorful sky that I have sometimes makes VOG a health hazard,
sometimes seen while on the island of even on the lovely Kona Coast. The steam
Oahu must have been. I thought I was in plume rising at the sea cliffs where lava
L.A. smog, but instead it was Kilauea pours into the ocean is also laden with
VOG! This map detail is a summary of hazardous gasses, referred to as "LAZE".
what is in and around Volcanoes National When ever the winds take the VOG or
Park, particularly around the Kilauea LAZE over vegetated areas the rains
Caldera. The details are as follows: become acidic and damage plants.
HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PRE-1983 SHORELINE Hawaii's new
PARK, HOME OF PELE Since ancient land is prone to catastrophic collapse
times Kilauea has been revered as the down the sea cliff and into the ocean
home of Pele, the sacred fire goddess who depths. Observe all warning signs. Lives
is the living deity of Hawaii's volcanoes. have been lost!
Pele controls the limitless powers of
creation with her molten strength and LAVA FLOW Kilauea's dynamic lava
unearthly beauty. Since 1983 Pele has flow has covered thousands of acres of
