Lava Landscapes

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Lava Landscapes

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Source: Nature: "Kilauea: Mountain of Fire"

Learn more about the Nature film "Kilauea: Mountain of Fire."

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This video from Nature describes the dramatic impact volcanic activity has on the Hawaiian landscape. An eruption often leaves behind a destroyed terrain, looking similar to the surface of the moon. To the casual observer, it would appear as through nothing had ever lived on the land. Scientists, however, can see a sketch of what was once there—trees, lush forests, and large boulders. But within the lava’s destruction, new life also emerges.
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  • Is lava a force of destruction or creation?
  • How does lava change the Hawaiian landscape? What does it look like?
  • What are the conditions like on the barren lava landscape?
  • How do we know that forests used to be where the hardened lava is now?
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Narrator: The lava, unleashed, transforms the earth.

Along its way, from cone to sea, it is a force of change – leaving in its wake a course of destruction, and creation.

The volcano sculpts a surreal moonscape. Huge rocks, ferried on the backs of floes, tower over barren plains.

It’s windy, it’s hot. The trees are long gone.

But clues to a greener past linger: trunks made of stone. The last remnants of a lush forest.

A mold forms when lava engulfs a tree and cools before the tree ignites.

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