learning that hawaii has its own words for lava:
ʻaʻā — rough lava w/ a rubbly surface of broken lava blocks called clinkers
pahoehoe — ropey lava that looks like a sticky river when flowing
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the word used for both is ‘Pele’—the hawaiian deity of volcanoes, lava & fire
“The lava flows basically reaffirm what our literature tells us—that the land is alive, that Pele is alive. When we talk about the lava being alive, it’s a metaphor for the earth itself being alive.”
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Pele is indeed alive. I think this lava river would technically be extra-liquidy, high-speed ‘pahoehoe’ (from an eruption in 2018) twitter.com/buitengebieden
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nah i just like how indigenous culture & language has influenced & been incorporated into broader US culture
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collecting samples from a Kilauea flow in 2017
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This is how geologists collect lava samples from an active volcano.
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woah you can tear the surface of lava
did not expect the physics to work like that
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it's sort of like marshmallow you left over the bonfire for too long and it got a dark crust but it's still warm and gooey inside
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