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	Volcanic Hair

amgumen

5-2-2008 9:47 PM

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5-2-2008 9:49 PM

alanocu

awesome clip!

5-3-2008 12:37 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/00dd005f-bfd0-49bc-bf48-4315026a1d00/2730C357-CBF8-45F0-925A-9109D9FC6FFD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Science/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Rocks/Igneous/Extrusive/Basalt/Basalt-07.html" href="http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Science/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Rocks/Igneous/Extrusive/Basalt/Basalt-07.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dkimages.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Science/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Rocks/Igneous/Extrusive/Basalt/Basalt-07.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dkimages.com/img/45E4D8DD-CC44-40EA-A898-443E7EB116E6" alt="Basalt" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Science/Earth-Sciences/Geology/Rocks/Igneous/Extrusive/Basalt/Basalt-07.html"><DIV>Pele's Hair, hair-like fibres of Basalt Glass occasionally enclosing minute Olivine Crystals'</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/PeleHair.html" href="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/PeleHair.html" style="font-size: 11px;">volcanoes.usgs.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/PeleHair.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/volcanoes.usgs.gov/img/113841C2-C538-4B6E-831B-EFB1CBA4876E" alt="Photo: pele's hair on surface of lava flow at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/PeleHair.html"><P>Hundreds of strands of Pele's hair intertwined on the surface of a 
    pahoehoe flow at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i. The glass strands were 
    erupted from Mauna Ulu, a shield that formed on the east rift of Kilauea
    between 1969 and 1974.
    </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Pglossary/PeleHair.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="244" valign="top"><FONT size="+4">P</FONT><FONT size="+2">ele's hair</FONT>
Thin strands of volcanic glass drawn out from molten lava have long been 
    called Pele's hair, named for Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. A 
    single strand, with a diameter of less than 0.5 mm, may be as long as 2 m. 
    The strands are formed by the stretching or blowing-out of molten basaltic
    glass from lava, usually from lava fountains, lava cascades, and vigorous 
    lava flows (for example, as pahoehoe lava plunges over a small cliff and at 
    the front of an `a`a flow). Pele's hair is often carried high into the air 
    during fountaining, and wind can blow the glass threads several tens of 
    kilometers from a vent. 
    </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/volcanics1.htm" href="http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/volcanics1.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gc.maricopa.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/volcanics1.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gc.maricopa.edu/img/B84840C3-A304-4223-A12F-C8E86842DE49" alt="Pele's Hair.jpg (79024 bytes)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/volcanics1.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.gc.maricopa.edu/img/90A98A21-8261-494C-9D40-4ACED9865CD7" alt="Pele's Hair closeup.jpg (41627 bytes)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/earthsci/imagearchive/volcanics1.htm">A microscopic view of Pele's Hair</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2730C357-CBF8-45F0-925A-9109D9FC6FFD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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