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Old 06-24-2018, 04:28 PM
 
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Originally Posted by steiconi View Post
That's like saying the ocean is a waste of water.
Epic Fail at wit. Sorry, but it isn't anything LIKE that.


This lava is made of basalt, a very versatile material that is even being used to make re-bar for concrete construction. www.basalt-rebar.com/

It could be formed into "concrete" blocks or lightweight bricks.

Sea water - not so much.
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Old 06-25-2018, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Juneau, AK + Puna, HI
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it would great if it could be used to mold some sort of construction materials, such as concrete (lava) blocks or the like.
It's creating land, the best construction material of all.
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Old 06-25-2018, 06:52 PM
 
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It's creating land, the best construction material of all.
There is plenty of that on the BI, barren, unliveable lava, that is. But building blocks, lightweight bricks. Mo betta!!
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Old 06-29-2018, 08:49 AM
 
Location: Na'alehu Hawaii/Buena Vista Colorado
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There is plenty of that on the BI, barren, unliveable lava, that is. But building blocks, lightweight bricks. Mo betta!!
"unliveable" lava? Every single house on the island is built in lava, albeit some of it is hundreds and even thousands of years old. The point is, that lava can be lived on. The lava was less than 100 years old when people started building in HOVE, and even today a large part of that subdivision is barren lava. But it is liveable!
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Old 06-29-2018, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Juneau, AK + Puna, HI
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I have suspected, not on any scientific data, to be sure, but only on instinct, that fissure 8 has a direct feed from the hot spot. It admit it is a long shot, but that is my suspicion.
You may want to read this. https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vsc/file_...AQ%20FINAL.pdf
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Old 06-29-2018, 01:28 PM
 
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"unliveable" lava? Every single house on the island is built in lava, albeit some of it is hundreds and even thousands of years old. The point is, that lava can be lived on. The lava was less than 100 years old when people started building in HOVE, and even today a large part of that subdivision is barren lava. But it is liveable?
Some of them are built on dirt on top of lava (Waimea). But of course I was referring to the fresh new stuff that is currently building the island. If you think that fresh lava is livable, we have different definitions for liveable.

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Old 06-29-2018, 01:40 PM
 
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My suspicion is that a new connection to the hot spot has been made, and we are seeing the result. It may intercept some of the old plumbing, but I think this magma is not transiting from the caldera to the fissure. I just seems to hot, too fluid, too fresh to be from there. It is just, however, my guestimate based on little more than suspicion
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Old 06-29-2018, 02:26 PM
 
Location: Southernmost tip of the southernmost island in the southernmost state
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Some of them are built on dirt on top of lava (Waimea). But of course I was referring to the fresh new stuff that is currently building the island. If you think that fresh lava is livable, we have different definitions for liveable.
Not sure why it wouldn't be liveable? We live in the desert, arctic, on the open ocean and even in space.
So what's the issue?

I live on the 1907 lava flow and other than a few scraggly Ohia trees and ferns, it's still barren rock. Oh, I mean except for where I have brought in soil and planted pretty much every type of tropical plant that will grow at my altitude.
There are actually some real solid benefits to living on newer lava that you wouldn't be aware of until you had tried it.
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Old 06-29-2018, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Juneau, AK + Puna, HI
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My suspicion is that a new connection to the hot spot has been made, and we are seeing the result. It may intercept some of the old plumbing, but I think this magma is not transiting from the caldera to the fissure. I just seems to hot, too fluid, too fresh to be from there. It is just, however, my guestimate based on little more than suspicion

For now I'm going with what the geologists studying this eruption suggest, namely that lava continuing to drain from the summit is pushing up very hot lava that they already knew resided deep under the lower east rift zone.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ava/709391002/
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Old 06-29-2018, 05:47 PM
 
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For now I'm going with what the geologists studying this eruption suggest, namely that lava continuing to drain from the summit is pushing up very hot lava that they already knew resided deep under the lower east rift zone.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ava/709391002/
They are probably correct, but as I understood it all the magma from circa 1955 and 1966 was already "evacuated".

Who knows? It is just my pet theory, and my pet theories are usually wrong!!
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