Backward flow pahoehoe squeeze-up - a photo on Flickriver

            The flow ripples (more like rolls), in the pahoehoe suggest it moved uphill? How'd that work?

Most likely the original topographical gradient was different on the lava surace. The whole lava field was probably inflated with hot lava. A little bit squeezed up and out onto the surface, made the pahoehoe ripply pattern seen here, and solidified. The flow was away from the camera, from foreground to background.  Later, the inflating lava underneath either drained away or cooled. The entire field deflated, but not evenly. Some locations squished up as the field collapsed. One of those locations, or squeeze-ups, is right underneath the ripply pattern. So as it lifted (or the surrounding area deflated - it's all relative), the ripply pattern lifted with it, but now looks like it is pointing the wrong way.

Taken in: United States / California / Ludlow (show map)

Taken on: January 18, 2016

Tags:

lava

pahoehoe

geology

Stats: 324 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder