Kilauea Iki Crater (IMAGE)

University of Chicago

Kilauea Iki Crater

Caption

The sparsely vegetated Kilauea Iki Trail crosses the floor of a volcanic crater that was filled with molten lava in in late 1959. Today the University of Chicago's Nicolas Dauphas and his associates use samples collected from the crater to learn how minerals and elements separate as magma cools and hardens.

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Steve Koppes

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