Kamaolii cinder cone - Haleakala crater - view from Kalahaku
by Sharon Mau
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Kamaolii cinder cone - Haleakala crater - view from Kalahaku
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Sharon Mau
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Haleakalā
Gathering place of high supernatural beings
A place where heaven meets the earth
Haleakalā is a shield volcano. Built up from the ocean floor by countless eruptions, it was once a mountain that rose several thousand feet higher than today. Haleakalā is a very beautiful sacred summit.
Jelal-ud-Din Rumi has said centuries ago, that before man fire, water, earth, air, are objects; before God they are living beings that work at His command. The meaning of what Rumi has said is that all objects, all places are as gramaphone records: what is put into them they speak; either your soul hears it or your mind, according to your development - Sufi Master, Hazrat Inayat Khan
Lava flows and cinder cones have partially refilled a stream-cut valley. The cinder cones (left to right) are Pu'u o Maui, Pu'u o Pele, Kamaoli'i, and Ka Lua o ka O'o. Toward the end of the eruption of the Kula lavas volcanic activity decreased greatly in intensity or ceased altogether. Erosion was more than able to keep pace with the building of the mountain, and streams cut great canyons into the slopes of the mountain. Some of these were several thousand feet deep. Two of them, the Ko'olau and Kaupō canyons, cut far back into the heart of the mountain, and their heads coalesced to form one great central depression divided only by a low narrow ridge separating their drainage areas. This depression, modified by later erosion and volcanic activity, forms the present great "crater" of Haleakalā, which actually is erosional, not volcanic, in origin.
Several hundred years have passed since the last volcanic activity occurred within the crater. This stillness on Maui is attributed by modern geology to the constant northwestward movement of the Pacific Plate. As the oldest islands on the northwest end of the chain have moved farther away from the plume-source of new lava, they have ceased to grow. The ravages of wind and rain and time have thus been able to reduce them to sandbars and atolls - Information source: Wikipedia and www.nps.gov
Kamaoli'i cinder cone - Haleakalā crater - view from Kalahaku overlook
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March 29th, 2012
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