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Checking the status of the flow today, I thought I'd look at what was down slope of the current flow. It seems to be mostly keeping North of last year's flow and is just getting into the area that has lines of steepest descent heading in to the back of HA and Ainaloa. Of course, as last year showed us, a lot can happen in the months it takes to move that far, so no need to panic, but I thought it might be fun to see what others thought of the likely future path at this time. I think I really just miss the lava flow forum and it's focus on trying to interpret facts and science. Punatalk has been pretty combative lately.
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I can no longer make heads or tails from the maps at
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maps/ - so who knows?
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Originally posted by DTisme
I can no longer make heads or tails from the maps at http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maps/ - so who knows?
You have to scroll all the way down to the April 1st map to get a real sense for what's going on - everything else (the newer maps and satellite images) are all zoomed in on the active area that's currently due South from Fern Acres.
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Hmmmm... Was heading towards "Oneself's" house in HPP, now heading towards his new house (I believe) in Fern Acres? This can't be true!
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That Oneself guy is like a magnet for stuff...
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if you look at page 7 of this pdf (page 4 of the article).. at the Geologic Map (est age of last flows on land in Puna)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1264/of2007-1264.pdf
you will see that that area between Pu'u O'o and the main part of Hawaiian Acres/Fern Acres has the oldest Kilauea related land in all of Puna.. 1,500-3,000 years since last covered in lava (Kilauea). its a Kipuka, and will keep flows from Pu'u O'o from going towards Fern Acres and upper Hawaiian Acres for a long time to come...
PS the same image has the best flow lines Ive found... the rest of older article is a good read too..
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Originally posted by bananahead
if you look at page 7 of this pdf (page 4 of the article).. at the Geologic Map (est age of last flows on land in Puna)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1264/of2007-1264.pdf
you will see that that area between Pu'u O'o and the main part of Hawaiian Acres/Fern Acres has the oldest Kilauea related land in all of Puna.. 1,500-3,000 years since last covered in lava (Kilauea). its a Kipuka, and will keep flows from Pu'u O'o from going towards Fern Acres and upper Hawaiian Acres for a long time to come...
PS the same image has the best flow lines Ive found... the rest of older article is a good read too..
Thank you for posting. So, if I understand correctly, the dark green area serves somewhat like a barrier to any new lava going directly into HA or Fern Acres? I wish, since it is eight years later, that there was an updated article like this, or an amendment to it, etc. thanks again Bananahead
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Bananahead: I'm pretty sure the lines on page 7 are the same they use as an overlay on the maps page (as I mentioned earlier, last seen on that page on the April 1st posting). I do like the overlays on that pdf showing the ages of previous flows. However, we must remember that the new flows are changing the topography significantly, for example, note the most recent photos showing Pu'u Kahaualea being covered in new flow:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/multimedia/upload...e-1195.jpg.
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