Spent last night camping at Craters of the Moon National Monument. It didn’t really look like what I think of as the moon, but it was quite an expanse of a’a (Hawaiian for sharp painful jagged lava – much like the sound you make when it’s in your sandal- ah! ah!) and pahoehoe (pa-hoy-hoy – smoother flowing lava). We hiked around quite a bit in the wind, and rolled out this morning.
Happy Mothers Day to our moms – Val and Phebe! And shout out to all the other great moms we know 🙂
Pahoehoe lava
Scott in the a’a
Not sure what you call this one…lava goo?
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Lava “goo” is considered appropriate classification for any contemporary lava flow, ie, last years Kilauea eruption. However, pre-Holocene, slow flowing lava torn by wind and speed would still be classified as pahoehoe prior to achieving the inertia and viscous mass needed for a’a.
Haha, Lava goo!!