Geology Department Hawaii Trip 2008
Aloha! On this page you will find a small sampling of pictures from our January 2008 field trip to the Big Island. We spent eight days exploring the island from top (the observatories on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa) to bottom (black sand and green sand beaches). Although we were never able to get close enough to view the active flows we did see an spectacular array of volcanic features including pristine aa and pahoehoe flows, tree casts and spatter ramparts, Pele's hair and reticulite, cinder cones and littoral cones, and ultramafic xenoliths. The students also participated in gravity surveys around Kilauea caldera. In addition to studying geology we also visited a botanical garden, went snorkeling with sea turtles, and frequented Ken's House of Pancakes in Hilo. Our trip was made possible in part by support from the Geology Department's Dan Johnson Field Research Fund.
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Group photo at the Green Sand Beach |
On the 1959 lava lake at Kilauea Iki |
Liana & Ben with lava casts of trees |
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Inside the lava tube |
Inspecting a fissure at Kilauea |
Stone walls overrun by lava flows |
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Sea turtle at the City of Refuge |
Tropical flora at the botanical garden |
Buckled lava on the floor of Kilauea Iki |
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Measuring gravity with Al Eggers |
The seniors |
Don't forget to keep an eye on the waves |
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Five years of geology club tee-shirts |
Tikis at the City of Refuge |
Our contribution to the ceiling at Lulu's |
This page is dedicated to the memory of Professor Stewart Lowther, friend, colleague, and co-leader of this trip.