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Center: Aerial view of braided lava flow of the 1984 Mauna Loa eruption. With imagination, some people see in this flow pattern the figure of Pele, Goddess of Volcanoes, with her arms raised. (Photograph by Maurice Krafft, Centre de Volcanologie, Cernay, France.) Above right: Inside the Thurston Lava Tube, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. (Photograph by Taeko Jane Takahashi.) Below right: How Thurston Lava Tube might have looked when it was "active" a few hundred years ago can be appreciated from this view through the collapsed roof ("skylight") of a lava tube active during the 1969-71 Mauna Ulu eruption. (Photograph by Jeffrey B. Judd.) Braided lava flow Thurston Lava Tube

Collapsed roof of lava tube

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