11-20-2007, 02:11 PM
Hooligal,
The flow has been meandering slightly downhill from 2200' to as far down as 1800' elevation over a 4-5 mile distance since July. There is sort of a high plateau about a mile wide that gently follows the rift down towards Kapoho. This southern move in the last 2 days has taken the front of the flow into an area which is south of this high plateau into an area twice as steep as it has been in four months and is aproaching areas which are increasingly steeper and steeper towards the ocean. Gravity may start playing more of a role than before. That is my guess. I think that the flow might come down just east of the Kalapana flow, perhaps just west of where 130 is "closed".
But, I was wrong once before.
Dan
The flow has been meandering slightly downhill from 2200' to as far down as 1800' elevation over a 4-5 mile distance since July. There is sort of a high plateau about a mile wide that gently follows the rift down towards Kapoho. This southern move in the last 2 days has taken the front of the flow into an area which is south of this high plateau into an area twice as steep as it has been in four months and is aproaching areas which are increasingly steeper and steeper towards the ocean. Gravity may start playing more of a role than before. That is my guess. I think that the flow might come down just east of the Kalapana flow, perhaps just west of where 130 is "closed".
But, I was wrong once before.
Dan