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Lave through skylight

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Skylight
19.374920°N 155.105281°W

The skylight is surrounded by basaltic lava flows from the past.


Skylight
19.356317°N 155.089511°W 19.356317 155.089511
Lava flowed on the surface originally from Puʻu ʻŌʻō but the lave became encased in cooled lava rock but stilled flowed downhill to the sea through what geologists call a lava tube.  When the crust above the lave breaks through, it exposes the lava below and is called a skylight. 

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Puʻu ʻŌʻō

Puʻu ʻŌʻō (often written Puu Oo, and pronounced [ˈpuʔu ˈʔoːʔoː], roughly "poo-oo oh-oh") is a cinder/spatter cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kīlauea volcano of the Hawaiian Islands. Puʻu ʻŌʻō has been erupting continuously since January 3, 1983, making it the longest-lived rift-zone eruption of the last two centuries.

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