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My experiments with volcanoes

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Thomas A. Jaggar Frontis

1. Experimental Geology Laboratory, Harvard University, 1900 40

2. Fountain at edge of lava lake, May 17, 1917 41

3. Explosion cloud rising from Halemaumau, May 13, 1924 56

4. Crag in lava lake, January 23, 1918 57

5. Scientists of Technical Expedition to Aleutians, 1907 72

6. Captain George Seeley of the Lydia, 1907 73

7. Volcano House from Observatory, 1913 88

8. Island in Halemaumau lava lake, 1911 88

9. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, 1912 89

10. Jaggar in seismograph vault beneath Observatory, 1916 89

11. Lava lake, showing bench, March 30, 1917 92

12. Halemaumau, showing lava lake and crags, December 8, 1916 92

13. Jaggar holding pipe for sounding lava lake, 1917 93

14. River of Alika flow, Mauna Loa, October 6, 1917 100

15. Lava streaming into a sinkhole in Halemaumau lava lake, July 7, 1917 100

16. Sakurajima Volcano, Japan, 1914 101

17. Fountain in lava lake, March 19, 1921 101

18. Isabel and Tom Jaggar in woods on Kilauea Volcano, 1923 120

19. Lava lake, fountains, and crags, March 20, 1921 121

20. Footprints in ash west of Mauna Iki 121

21. The Honukai on Alaska beach, 1928 136

22. The Ohiki, first amphibian truck, 1928 136

23. Lava flow entering village of Hoopuloa, 1926 137

24. Lava flow of 1926 Mauna Loa eruption approaching Hoopuloa 137

25. Jaggar in office of Observatory in “Tin House,” 1937 152

26. Bomb bursting on lava flow, December 27, 1935 153

27. Fountain in Halemaumau lava lake, May 23, 1917 168

28. Rare dome fountain, Kilauea Crater, March 20, 1921 169

29. Lava stream near rim of Halemaumau, February 9, 1921 169

CHARTS

Fluctuations of Halemaumau 113

Diagram of hypothetical globe section 179

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