Lava boils away largest lake on Big Island in about 90 minutes
Green Lake, the largest freshwater lake on Hawaii’s Big Island, has completely disappeared, another victim of the Kilauea volcano, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Lava from Fissure 8 begin pouring into the lake on June 2, turning it into a roiling cauldron. A thick, white plume of water vapor billowed hundreds of feet over the lake. It took only an hour and half for the molten rock to evaporate the entire body of water, which was about 200 feet deep.
SFGATE Hawaii correspondent Jeannie Cooper wrote about Green Lake, located near the intersection of highways 132 and 137, in 2012:
“Just outside the gates was the Kapoho Farm Stand, where a woman universally known as Smiley sells papayas, bananas and, for $5, admission to Green Lake, a deep freshwater pool in a crater atop Green Mountain (Pu’u Kapoho). Local legend has it that Jacques Cousteau tried to plumb its depths in a submarine and gave up trying.”
This video, shot “a few months ago” according to photographer Warren Fintz, provides close up shots of the lava flows.
As of June 10, Kilauea’s Fissure 8 continued to spew lava up to 180 feet into the air, according to USGS. Credit: Warren Fintz via Storyful
Media: Storyful
Green Lake, also known as Ka Wai a Pele, was about 400 years old. It had been a popular swimming hole for ages. According to legend, Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanos, bathed in the lake when she first came to the island.
Now, she has reclaimed it. In the more than a month since Kilauea erupted, about 7.7 square miles of land reportedly have been blanketed by lava.
Read more at www.sfgate.com
Trackback from your site.
Joseph A Olson
| #
Variable volcanism is the largest factor in variable CO2 levels and the largest climate forcing factor ignored by Alarmists and their fake, AstroTurf opponents, the semi literate Lukewarmists. This fake big/little CO2 warming debate would have ended a decade ago except for the ignorant Lukewarmists.
“Earth’s Missing Geothermal Flux” at FauxScienceSlayer….share Truth
Reply
Gary Ashe
| #
When water boils, what are the bubbles ?.
When an estimated 4,ooo.ooo thermal vents spew out lava and 2000 degree gases, what happens to the surrounding water in our oceans.
Instant steam bubbles ? that heat transfer travelling quickly to the surface.
Is that how some ship’s disappear very quickly in a field of bubbles created on the sea floor by lava flows.
Reply
Alan Stewart
| #
This of course will be blamed on manmade global warming!!
Reply
Gary Ashe
| #
If lava can turn that volume of water to steam, in such a short time, i wouldnt want to be sailing over it when taking place a kilometre below me.
Reply
jerry krause
| #
Hi Mike,
“A thick, white plume of water vapor billowed hundreds of feet over the lake.”
It is false statements like this which have created a great misunderstanding what ‘steam’ actually is. Your statement should have been: A thick, white plume of condensed water vapor billowed hundreds of feet over the lake. For the thick, white plume is a cloud.
Long ago the publishers of Galileo’s classic wrote to the readers of this book: “intuitive knowledge keeps pace with accurate definition”.
Have a good day, Jerry
Reply
John Doran
| #
http://www.junkscience.com/2016/01/the-40000-mile-volcano/
Follow the links – beaut.
Reply
jerry krause
| #
Hi John,
I followed your link to junkscience.com and since you seem to consider what I read there to be beautiful (with which comment I agree), I cannot consider it junk science. Am I missing something?
Have a good day, Jerry
Reply