A Geologic Visit to Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

Volcanoes National Park, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is home to Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes on the planet. The park encompasses over 500 square miles, and includes the recently active Mauna Loa, which itself is the world’s largest shield volcano. In addition to viewing ongoing Kilauea eruption events, other easily assessable attractions include numerous craters and cinder cones, a lava tube you can walk through, steam vents, evidence of recent lava flows, active ground subsidence that destroys highways, and ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs. This presentation will show many of these features from a 2022 visit, both on the ground and from the air. Many of the rocks you will see are younger than you are, which is a rarity in geologic field trips!

The Lecturer:

Dr. Terry Panhorst PhD, PG. (University of Nevada), Retired Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Panhorst is on the Board of Directors at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology in Boise. He also leads upper level geology field tours and is a frequent lecturer for both the museum and outside organizations.

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