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The Hawai'i That Was: Watching the Destruction of the Islands in Real Time

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Author: Garry Hayes
Date: 2016-08-24 08:30:00
Blog: Geotripper
URL: http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-hawaii-that-was-watching.html

Summary:

The Big Island volcanoes of Mauna Kea (left) and Mauna Loa (right), as seen from the summit of Haleakala on Maui Geologists have at their fingertips the closest thing to a working time machine that exists on planet Earth. We can't travel to the past, of course, but we can decipher past happenings by working out the sequence of geological events. But with the Hawaiian Islands, we have a

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