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 Lava Flows and Lava Tubes
NOW AVAILABLE IN VHS AND DVD
 "This DVD is a treat for volcanologists, Earth scientists and others who are curious about volcanoes. The new segments on lava flows, vents and tubes are my favorites. They document and explain these volcanic features with dazzling photography and clear discussions. Aerial photographs, captured while hanging out of a helicopter, allow the viewer to appreciate lava flow dynamics. Time-lapsed photography beautifully documents the inflation of pahoehoe flows. The level of the video is suitable for most ages. Everyone can learn something from it and will enjoy the beautiful photography and dynamics of lava flow emplacement. In summary, if you are going to own one lava-flow video, this is the one for both teaching and home use." Michael Garcia, from EOS review (Trans. of the American Geophysical Union), December 2003.
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Chances are, you've seen lava before. Maybe not the red flowing stuff, but that black rock that may make badlands, or crown cliffs. Have you ever been to Craters of the Moon, Yellowstone, Hawaii, Lava Beds, Mt. St. Helens, Newberry, El Malpais, Sunset Crater, or Capulin? These and many other places around the U.S. - and the world - have young lava flows. Perhaps you've crawled through a lava tube or climbed a big cinder cone, and wondered, how did this get here? That's what this videotape all about.
 We've spent many years studying, filming, and teaching about active lava flows. What we've found is that no matter how hard we try to explain in words, the easiest thing to do is to just show people how lava flows work. So we've done a lot of filming of specific processes that interest us, and that we've wanted to show people. How different types of lava flows move and grow. How a lava tube forms and evolves and eventually becomes a big cave. Why in some places you get cinder cones and not in other places.
This video goes through all that and much, much more. We've worked hard to create a video that uses stunning visuals to communicate up-to-date scientific ideas about lava flows in language that can be understood by just about everyone (assuming you speak English). It is jam-packed with information and ideas that should really help you understand not only the hot lava you might someday get to see, but the black rock that may be in your own backyard.
Excellent for classrooms (from middle school to graduate level volcanology) or just for personal entertainment and enrichment! We think this will be eye-opening even for most geologists.
"“ Dr. Ken Hon, volcanologist, photographer, and narrator of this exciting program, takes us up very close to all kinds of lava flows and formations. The wealth of current, in-depth information is well organized and explained.” Joan Karasick, School Library Journal, December 2003
“Marked by high quality and creative videography, this program explores lava formation and flow and the effects of volcanic eruption. Voice-over narration introduces terminology…and geographic and scientific information. Time lapse and close-up images clearly illustrate how lava flows, advances, inflates, cools, and fractures. The sound is so real that viewers can clearly hear water bubbling, trees burning, and hot lava chipping away from smaller, cooler lava.” Booklist, December 2003.
“Lava Flows and Lava Tubes… combines detailed narration and spectacular footage of volcanic eruptions producing rivers of lava. Recommended.” Video Librarian, December 30, 2003
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