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	Volcanic Hair
amgumen
5-2-2008 9:47 PM
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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://www.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/b166ee16-8efa-4515-a0f9-f7b2ab87dd26/2730C357-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://content9.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://www.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. 
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