Transcript: Lava Landscapes

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.