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Answer to a Hawaiian Mystery, and a Cautionary Tale

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Author: Garry Hayes
Date: 2017-06-02 09:52:00
Blog: Geotripper
URL: http://geotripper.blogspot.com/2017/06/answer-to-hawaiian-mystery-and.html

Summary:

If you've had a geology or earth science course, do you remember what you learned about basalt? Basalt, the low-silica volcanic rock, the one that flows instead of exploding. The one that isn't all that dangerous. Even if you haven't had such a class, you've heard that visiting volcanoes on the Hawaiian Islands is one of the things tourists can do. Helicopters fly over the lava flows, and

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