Kilauea’s Episode 33 wasn’t the biggest or longest of the fountaining eruptive pulses during this sequence, but offered unique moments all its own, including pretty much any freeze frame’s delivering a one-time pattern of twinkling elements. Here, countless tons of solidifying and molten chunks of incandescent rock — small as thimbles or large as a school bus — descend up to a thousand feet, before slamming into the ground amid clouds of dust raised by the bombardment. Gravity and wind size-sorted the heavier boulders closer to the originating vent.
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