{"id":110048,"date":"2020-07-16T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/geologists-continue-study-of-vast-fissure-8-lava-flow"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T22:26:01","slug":"geologists-continue-study-of-vast-fissure-8-lava-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/geologists-continue-study-of-vast-fissure-8-lava-flow","title":{"rendered":"Geologists Continue Study Of Vast Fissure 8 Lava Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geologists-continue-study-of-vast-fissure-8-lava-flow3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis photo shows the channel wall in the braided channel region of the flow,\u201d HVO says. \u201cNote the small ferns growing on the upper channel wall.\u201d USGS photo by M. Patrick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(BIVN)<\/strong> \u2013 Geologists visited the lower East Rift Zone lava flow field in Puna this past week \u201cto make continued measurements and observations, to better understand and reconstruct the dynamics of the Fissure 8 lava flow,\u201d reports the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The lava flow, active two years ago this month, changed the landscape of Puna and destroyed the entire seaside-village of Kapoho.<\/p>\n<p>HVO posted photos of the trip to its <a href=\"https:\/\/volcanoes.usgs.gov\/volcanoes\/kilauea\/kilauea_multimedia_15.html\">website<\/a> on July 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis photo shows the channel wall in the braided channel region of the flow,\u201d HVO says. \u201cNote the small ferns growing on the upper channel wall.\u201d USGS photo by M. Patrick. (BIVN) \u2013 Geologists visited the lower East Rift Zone lava flow field in Puna this past week \u201cto make continued measurements and observations, to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}