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Kilauea, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Deep beneath us a boiling cauldron of melted rock that
wells up from possibly the core mantel boundary on the
giant hot spot that is Hawaii.
Next to us, the great crater here, fills with magma, with
lava, that comes boiling up from below.
And then it rifts out, it breaks, and you get cracks in
the ground, and the lava flows out, and it is now flowing
into the sea and building new pieces of the island just
below us down at the coast.
Around me here, you can see swirling--
the fogs, the mists, the steam, the hot sulfurous gases
that come off of this volcano.
Where the rain from above soaks down through the cracks,
it hits a hot rock, it flashes to steam, and it
comes boiling out.
This is a place where geology lives, where geology is
living right now.
And it's an amazing place to try to breathe in this.