01-29-2020, 06:00 AM
One would be amazed at all the ideas passed around over dinner, at a picnic, in the library, talking in the hall, or maybe it was that time we ran into each other in KTA's parking lot? God, you'd be amazed at how often we run into each other in the KTA parking lot, especially since he moved to Hilo. Or was it at the beach? Regardless where, it's an observation one would make off handedly, 'hey did you notice that..'
I think it's an interesting idea.. that maybe the way the flank opens up repeatedly in an area has some rhyme, some pattern to it. So I shared it.. simple. I don't think it's important that I share who passed that idea on to me. But hey, let's be honest, your interest lies elsewhere. Otherwise your questions would be more to the veracity of the information.. pull out a map, check what is said. Have you done that?
Those casually shared ideas are often pretty interesting. And, over the years I have watched as many of them have percolated into research, and often publication. Whereas others just remain casual observations but are none-the-less interesting.. at least to me. Here's one I have always enjoyed batting around. Of course you can poke all sorts of holes in it, or conversely you can take the opportunity to continue your attack on me..
Have you ever noticed that Mauna Loa's East Rift Zone stops at or around that 9,000' area and wondered why? Why when all the other major radial rifts on the mountains tend to go way further, into the submarine extensions of the volcanoes? One researcher has proposed a very different model than any I have seen to date as to why that is...
He/she proposed that during the catastrophic collapse of Mauna Loa's southern flank that in some models preceded, and lead to, the onset of what became Kilauea, not only did the southern flank subside but that the lower extension of the east rift was also included in the land movement. And, that with the entire block sliding down, and to the south, what was then the east rift of Mauna Loa slid south enough to be positioned so as to be cockroached By Kilauea as she evolved, and as such everything east of Pauahi is built upon the older Mauna Loa structure.
Wild idea, eh? And one, I think, I first heard in a hot tub while discussing a manuscript we were working on together for a comparison analysis of shield volcanoes and the more popular stratovolcanoes around the world. Of course I throw that tidbit in so as to give you plenty to be obsessed with other than the actual idea itself, if that's what you really what to do. I mean, yeah, wild idea, but OMG in a hot tub? An unnamed source? Though I did hint at it being one of my co-authors, still... fire away.
But can you imagine.. that a part of the island collapsed and that the subsequent building of Kilauea included such a unique feature as being able to reoccupy an abandoned rift? Fun idea.. yeah? Though I haven't seen it in any peer reviewed publication there are other's that started out as "pure speculation," ideas batted around over beers in Reggie's office on a Friday after work, that have since made their way into the mainstream modeling now employed. But hey, one per post
I think it's an interesting idea.. that maybe the way the flank opens up repeatedly in an area has some rhyme, some pattern to it. So I shared it.. simple. I don't think it's important that I share who passed that idea on to me. But hey, let's be honest, your interest lies elsewhere. Otherwise your questions would be more to the veracity of the information.. pull out a map, check what is said. Have you done that?
Those casually shared ideas are often pretty interesting. And, over the years I have watched as many of them have percolated into research, and often publication. Whereas others just remain casual observations but are none-the-less interesting.. at least to me. Here's one I have always enjoyed batting around. Of course you can poke all sorts of holes in it, or conversely you can take the opportunity to continue your attack on me..
Have you ever noticed that Mauna Loa's East Rift Zone stops at or around that 9,000' area and wondered why? Why when all the other major radial rifts on the mountains tend to go way further, into the submarine extensions of the volcanoes? One researcher has proposed a very different model than any I have seen to date as to why that is...
He/she proposed that during the catastrophic collapse of Mauna Loa's southern flank that in some models preceded, and lead to, the onset of what became Kilauea, not only did the southern flank subside but that the lower extension of the east rift was also included in the land movement. And, that with the entire block sliding down, and to the south, what was then the east rift of Mauna Loa slid south enough to be positioned so as to be cockroached By Kilauea as she evolved, and as such everything east of Pauahi is built upon the older Mauna Loa structure.
Wild idea, eh? And one, I think, I first heard in a hot tub while discussing a manuscript we were working on together for a comparison analysis of shield volcanoes and the more popular stratovolcanoes around the world. Of course I throw that tidbit in so as to give you plenty to be obsessed with other than the actual idea itself, if that's what you really what to do. I mean, yeah, wild idea, but OMG in a hot tub? An unnamed source? Though I did hint at it being one of my co-authors, still... fire away.
But can you imagine.. that a part of the island collapsed and that the subsequent building of Kilauea included such a unique feature as being able to reoccupy an abandoned rift? Fun idea.. yeah? Though I haven't seen it in any peer reviewed publication there are other's that started out as "pure speculation," ideas batted around over beers in Reggie's office on a Friday after work, that have since made their way into the mainstream modeling now employed. But hey, one per post