WHERE LAVA MEETS OCEAN

High resolution images of molten lava colliding with the Pacific Ocean. More ocean entry lava can be viewed in this gallery: http://leighs-gallery.smugmug.com/organize/Moltenlavaphotos/ROYAL-GARDENS-LAVA-FLOW-2011

Electric Bolt Blasts Inside Lava Plume #2 IMG# 0098<br />
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In a stunning display of awesome power, massive volumes of molten lava pours into the Pacific Ocean and instantly explodes resulting in tremendous heat, steam, sulfur gas, glass particles, rock, black sand -- and rarely, a lightning bolt within the raging plume seen here as a violet color above the lava showers.<br />
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Photo taken at the official Hawaii State Civil Defense lava viewing area on the Big Island, July 2008<br />
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Electric Bolt Blasts Inside Lava Plume #2 IMG# 0098

(If purchasing this photo, please note it is nearly square, so you might want to select a square ordering size and not crop it - select 'none' if the cropping page has auto-cropped it)

In a stunning display of awesome power, massive volumes of molten lava pours into the Pacific Ocean and instantly explodes resulting in tremendous heat, steam, sulfur gas, glass particles, rock, black sand -- and rarely, a lightning bolt within the raging plume seen here as a violet color above the lava showers.

Photo taken at the official Hawaii State Civil Defense lava viewing area on the Big Island, July 2008

prints well at 20x20-inches