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| Devastation Trail, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park |
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Written and produced by Donald B. MacGowan;
videography by Frank Burgess and Donald MacGowan;
Narration by Frank Burgess; Original Music by
Donnie MacGowan
When Kilauea Iki erupted from vents on Pu'u Pai in
November of 1959, several feet of hot ash and
cinder-sized pieces of pumice fell on the lush
fern forest downwind. Devastation trail follows
the edge of this inundation, linking the Kilauea
Iki Overlook Parking lot with another parking lot
at the intersection of Crater Rim Drive with Chain
of Craters Road in a wonderful and interesting 0.7
mile, 30 to 45 minute) hike.
During the eruption, fire fountains of molten lava
shot up as high as 1900 feet tall from the
eruptive rifts. For a sense of scale, the world's
tallest building, the Taipei 101 which is 101
stories tall and 1667 feet high, would be dwarfed
by these fire fountains. These immense fountains
spread ash, pumice and spatter all around the
area, as well as fed liquid lava to the lava pond
within Kilauea Iki crater. The spatter was hot
and plastic enough to weld together into the
spatter cones you see on Pu'u Pai, however, the
tephra and ash pumice spread out and fell
downwind, depositing an immensely thick (as much
as 3 meters) blanket when the eruption column
collapsed between fountains. This pumice buried
lush forest, which is preserved on the eastern
side of Devastation Trail. On the west side of
the trail is the sterile, moon-like devastation
surface of pumice. A few o'hia trees, dead and
bleached, poke up through the pumice and very
gradually some o'hia, ohelo and ferns are
beginning to recolonize the dead zone. Look for
numerous tree molds along the trail in the section
about a third of the way from Pu'u Pai to the
Devastation Trail parking lot.
Pumice results when there is a lot of gas and
water dissolved in the liquid lava. As the lava
is erupted, pressure is released, the melt begins
to cool quickly and the gas is rapidly exolved
from the liquid lava—much the way carbon dioxide
is exolved as a bubbly froth when you shake a can
of soda pop. The spatter and lava in the ponds
cool slowly enough for all the gas to escape, and
the resultant rock is very dense when it finally
solidifies. The pumice, however, chills so
rapidly it forms a glass-like, frothy substance
because it traps the bubbles. This is why pumice
has a low enough density to float on water.
For more information about visiting Hawaii in
general or touring the Big Island in particular,
go to tourguidehawaii.com,
lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com and
tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com.
Tags : Donnie Donald MacGowan Frank Burgess Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Eruption Devastation Trail Hike Big Island Travel adventure GPS tourguidehawaii.com |
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Durée : 239 s |
| THOR 'Devastation of Musculation' video |
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Metal mullet mayhem massacre!! The mighty THOR
returns, new CD in stores July 25, 2005! Details
are here:
http://www.smogveil.com
THOR on tour in August and September 2006: August
18th Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA w/ZOLAR X
August 19th Dante's, Portland.OR w/ZOLAR X
August 20th Golden Bull, Oakland, CA w/ZOLAR X
August 21st 12 Galaxies, San Francisco, CA w/ZOLAR
X
August 22nd The Attic, Santa Cruz, CA w/ZOLAR X
August 23rd Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
w/ZOLAR X
August 30th Emo's, Austin, TX w/ZOLAR X
Sept. 7th The Note, Chicago, IL
Tags : THOR punk metal hardcore crash mullet mayhem devastation musculation |
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Affichage : 19104
Durée : 220 s |
| Devastation |
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Game released somewhere around 2003-2004. Unreal
engine based first person shooter.
To play this game in mp you need a program called
"the allseeing eye (ase)". The servers wont show
in the ingame mp list. Find all you need to play
devastation at:
www.Devastationfiles.com
Tags : Devastation the game unreal engine mapping maps games action fps shooters pc |
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Affichage : 8009
Durée : 106 s |
| Ocean Vision - Devastation of Elk Horn Coral |
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Elk Horn Coral is being decimated throughout the
Caribbean at an alarming rate. The loss of this
magnificent coral is equivalent to the loss of all
the redwoods in Sequoia National Park. This
documented depletion of coral is a result of a
freighting and highly contagious reef coral
disease known as white pox, caused by a bacteria
found in sewage spilloff.
The situation is critical because Elk Horn coral
is one of the two most important reef corals in
the western hemisphere, and its loss would mean
disaster for the thousand of fish and
invertebrates that call it home.
Ocean Vision takes a look at this highly
destructive disease and what is being done to
combat it. For More Information...
Tags : news ocean vision devastation elk horn coral |
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Affichage : 985
Durée : 242 s |
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