Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii (Video)

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii (Video)

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii (Video)
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Hawaii - is one of the most impressive corners of the planet. What good is the fact that you can admire in the archipelago ... lava tree groves.

Some of the volcanic crater spilled hot lava cools at the foot of the slope reaches the forest, lava flow is normally big trees not overthrown - just surround the trunks. The moisture content is cooled lava, and the bark of the solid lava shell. Lava flow subsided over the fossilized remains stick "lava trees".

Naturally, the hellish heat of the lava formations shell burn alive the wood, and stone, lava fields of the remaining trees - hollow. In some cases, these monuments to improvise a standstill for years. However, there have been cases where one liquid in another tree stone shells not only burn, but still alive, so after a period of time after the eruption, continues to grow.

The best preserved specimens of lava trees are found in the southeast of Pahoa, Pune area. Here stands the whole liquid lava once submerged ohi'a grove of trees - their trunks topped lava after 1790. Kilauea volcano eruption took place inundated by 3.3 meters. Although strains of moisture cools and Cures lava, however, the heat of the wood turned to ashes. Soon to open up a gap near the woods yet Unset collapse of lava flow field, but the stone shells on the tree trunks have been hardened, and remained so. Up to the present day.

The cruel "stone marks the top of the trees once a burst of lava flow surfaces. When opened after a stream of the slot in which the shrunken more than clinker, of trees left standing stone columns.

Now Lava Tree State Park with a 17.1 acre area. It is not only the stone trees, but also the life of flora. Many lava moss-covered trees, many of them have fallen, decayed.

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii

Gemstone Trees: lava trees in Hawaii