Hawai‘i Volcanoes 2016

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Reticulite and Pele's hair. Reticulite is basaltic glass frothed so much that adjacent bubble walls are gone, leaving a spongy network where three bubbles were adjacent. Due to its high permeability it sinks in water, as Don demonstrates. Pele's hair forms as droplets of glass fall from the air.


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