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Structure-from-Motion source images for an inactive perched lava lake formed at Pu'u'o'o (Kilauea) in 2014

Metadata Updated: July 6, 2024

Lava flow hazards are usually thought to end when the erupting vent becomes inactive, but this is not always the case. At Kilauea in August 2014, a spiny 'a'a flow erupted from the levee of a crusted perched lava lake that had been inactive for a month, and the surface of the lava lake subsided as the flow advanced downslope over the following few days. Topography constructed from oblique aerial photographs using structure-from-motion (SfM) software shows that the volume of the flow (~68,000 m3) closely matches the volume of subsidence of the crusted lava lake (~64,000 m3). The similarity of these volumes, along with the textural characteristics of the lava, shows that the lava that fed the flow had been stored beneath the surface of the perched lava lake, and that the flow was not generated by reactivation of the vent. This extends the duration of the local lava flow hazard presented by perched lava lakes and similar flow field structures that store lava, such as rootless shields.

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Metadata Created Date October 18, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024

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Metadata Created Date October 18, 2023
Metadata Updated Date July 6, 2024
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