Jaggar Museum Lava Display - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI
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denben
N 19° 25.190 W 155° 17.292
5Q E 259727 N 2148877
This lava display is located inside the Thomas A. Jaggar museum at the Hawaii Volcaoes National Park, Big Island Hawaii.
Waymark Code: WMR2M9
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 05/03/2016
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One of the busiest locations in the Volcanoes National park, Jaggar Museum offers a breathtaking panoramic view of Kilauea Caldera and the on-going gas eruption of Halema'uma'u crater.
Jaggar Museum is a museum on volcanology. In this museum are several displays of the types of lava, eruption "by-product" displays, real-time monitors, equipment used by scientists in the past to study the volcano and working "state of the art" electronic seismographs.
The inscriptions on the display reads: Lava that has not yet reached the earth's surface is called magma. Once it reaches the surface, magma is called lava.
On display are 3 different types of basalt lava, 1 of adesite lava and lava at Mount St. Helens.
Entrance to the Jaggar Museum is free
Entrance to the park (a seven-day permit) is $10.00 per vehicle, $5.00 for pedestrians or bicyclists.
Type of Display: Geological
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