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Spatter

Lava flow 61g boils the ocean at Kamokuna, Hawaii producing a thick, glowing plume of steam and gases and explosively ejecting spatter in the waning twilight. The advancing new shoreline is often poorly consolidated and sloughs off, acres at a time, creating temporary coastal escarpment and black sand beaches.

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Uploaded on October 26, 2019
Taken on February 2, 2017