Adding relatively minor factors like crystals, water, ice, and metal can drastically affect how lava moves, cools, and creates formations. When lava meets water, for example, the results can be ...

Today, when the ocean waves are pressurized in these lava tubes, water sprays up into the air like a geyser. Keahole Point was formed by the lava flow of the Hualalai Volcano, which last erupted ...

Tuesday was the eruption's 12th episode. What began in the morning with sporadic, small flows became continuous fountaining in the afternoon, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. They reached 150 to ...

When lava meets water, the temperature difference is so extreme that it solidifies almost instantly. This rapid cooling causes the lava to crack and shatter into smaller pieces, a process known as ...