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Comments on Gigapan: Lava Butte Cinder Cone and ʻAʻā Flow

  2. Lava Butte is a geologically young cinder cone at the north end of a series of vents radiating from Newberry Volcano. The eruption that formed the cinder cone also issued an extensive aa lava flow, seen here in the foreground near its southeast margin. Edi and Berti went exploring and made friends with a couple of th...

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  1. Ron Schott

    Ron Schott (September 10, 2009, 08:08PM )

    The title is now corrected.

  2. Ron Schott

    Ron Schott (September 09, 2009, 05:56AM )

    Geez, for a language with just 14 letters they sure do have a lot of nuances. ;-)

  3. Richard Palmer

    Richard Palmer (September 08, 2009, 11:11PM )

    Ron, that's ʻaʻā (from the Polynesian origin of the word) The macron (long vowel sound) just means that the second ah(as a is pronounced in Hawaiian) is drawn out, as in aah, and is pronounced with a slight emphasis.