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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. February 1969 eruption of Kilauea Volcano. Opening of a fissure across Chain of Craters Road west of Alae Crater: #1:50 p.m., February 22, 1969, the uppermost layer of asphalt has buckled and slid across the underlying layer.

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1969

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. February 1969 eruption of Kilauea Volcano. Opening of a fissure across Chain of Craters Road west of Alae Crater: #1:50 p.m., February 22, 1969, the uppermost layer of asphalt has buckled and slid across the underlying layer. The ground crack beneath the asphalt pavement (not shown) is about 10 centimeters wide. Photo by J.C. Forbes. Figure 13-B, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 891. Photos sda00013, ska00014, sda00015, sda00016, and sda00017 form a sequence.

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name photoLibrary sda00014
number photoLibrary 33709
batch photoLibrary batch57
number_in_book photoLibrary 14

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