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YouTube.com - Mauna Loa the largest volcano on Earth and Mauna Kea the highest volcano of Hawaii
Comments: Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on Earth in terms of volume and area covered and one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the US state of Hawai?i in the Pacific Ocean. It is an active shield volcano, with a volume estimated at approximately 18000 cubic miles (75000 km³), although its peak is about 120 feet (37 m) lower than that of its neighbor, Mauna Kea. The Hawaiian name "Mauna Loa" means "Long Mountain". Lava eruptions from Mauna Loa are silica-poor, thus very fluid: and as a result eruptions tend to be non-explosive and the volcano has relatively shallow slopes. Mauna Loa has probably been erupting for at least 700000 years and may have emerged above sea level about 400000 years ago, although the oldest-known dated rock...
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YouTube.com - Mauna Loa & Mauna kea
Comments: My adventure to the big island of Hawaii. To the top of Mauna Kea with views of Mauna Loa - the worlds largest active volcano. I highly recommend the trek
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YouTube.com - Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii -1930's Eruption
Comments: Remarkable silent film, 16mm Kodachrome movie film, YouTube of it's day. Probably the first color film ever made of a volcanic eruption. Mauna Loa's summit Mokuaweoweo Crater eruption filmed probably in 1933 by Harold T. Stearns, a USGS Hydrologist-Volcanologist. The lava fountains are hundreds of feet high, the erupting fissure inside the crater is about two thousand feet long. The crater floor is at an elevation of 13100' ASL. Stearns is flying in an open cockpit at an altitude of around 15000' ASL. Note patches of snow on the rim of the crater! At 1 min, 50 secs into the video, a plane will enter the lower right corner of the frame. View the entire 66 minute SILENT FILM compilation that was hand edited by Stearns himself, but you have to...
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