"Glass wool nature" thrown in Hawaiian beaches

Volcanic lava threat to all living things, it's probably everyone understands, but the average layman does not even suspect how much.

So, in Hawaii, where is now the raging of the Kilauea volcano, the beaches were covered with countless clusters of amazing gold fibers and filaments known as "Pele's hair". Despite their beauty, contact with them is strictly impossible because they cause animals, including humans, inflammation, bleeding and other very unpleasant symptoms and disease until death.

"Hair Pele" are the thinnest filaments of volcanic glass, said don Swanson geologist Hawaiian Observatory volcano. When the lava temperature is about 1160 degrees Celsius splashing fountain or pour a stream, it sprays quickly stretched and frozen in the wind and that transfers the fiber to a distance of many kilometers. Such fibers, brown and Golden in color, very similar to human hair, that's why they are called. However, they are very dangerous: imagine that you inhale the tiny fibers of glass. Getting a "natural glass" in the water makes it dangerous for the animal world as a glass baby causes inflammation in all organs, where it may penetrate.

Experts are still not determined, a display of volcanic glass fibre completely from the lungs and other organs of animals or not, but it is a truism that "hair Pele" in the past suffered not only people, but livestock. While victims in Hawaii from "hair Pele" is not seen...

However, it is reported that recently incredibly brittle and sharp threads in a huge number were thrown at Hawaiian beaches, the ocean, the surface of which the "hairs" fell after the eruption. So to be on the beach, which was amazingly beautiful and fantastically dangerous, strictly prohibited.

By the way, is a natural phenomenon no relation to the football player Pele has no vitreous strands are called so in honor of the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and fire, Pele.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»