STORY BY DONNA ALBRECHT
Highly viscous lava oozing from the edge of the flow in 2018, making its way from fissure 17 of the Kilauea volcano.
(UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, USGS)
Volcano activity is interesting to nearly everyone, but few are more interested than readers of Rock & Gem. We see the news reports of how a volcano works, but what exactly is the Kilauea volcano creating in terms of rocks and minerals?