Breakout!

While hiking the other day...





This is a lava breakout. Lest you think volcanoes go boom all the time, this is the only current surface activity on the entire island. I have some pics in the photo album of the solid results of breakouts like this. Its fascinating watching the real-time formation of lava morphology (forms). It is not often in geology that one is able to see the actual process of formation of a given structure or phenomena. Real-time Geology! Woohoo!