Hawaii's destructive lava flows hit the ocean, making the Big Island bigger

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Hawaii's destructive lava flows hit the ocean, making the Big Island bigger
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The history of Hawaii is a tale of lava flowing into the sea.*

Bounties of fresh lava poured out of the Kilauea volcano's recently opened fissures this weekend, producing orange molten rivers (https://mashable.com/2018/05/19/hawaii-lava-flow-kilauea/) that flowed downslope to the Pacific Ocean. When they met, the lava chilled into rock while creating plumes of acidic steam.*

These lava flows, while devastating for homes in the way of these flows, will gradually add new land to the Big Island, continuing a long geologic history of natural island-building. *

"This is the common way in which the island grows laterally," George Bergantz, a volcanologist at the University of Washington, said in an interview. "It's lava flow, on top of lava flow, on top of lava flow." Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/05/21/hawaii-lava-kilauea-adds-new-land-to-the-big-island/)

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