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What Are Hornitos?
A hornito (picture one) is formed by gas and lava forced through a small opening in the roof of a lava tube. One side of the hornito has a small solidified flow of lava that oozed from the top, with the remainder consisting of spatter and Pele’s hair.
What Is Pele’s Hair?
Pele’s hair (picture two) is a form of lava. It is named after Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes. It can be defined as volcanic glass fibers or thin strands of volcanic glass. The strands are formed through the stretching of molten basaltic glass from lava, usually from lava fountains, lava cascades, and vigorous lava flows.
Pele’s hair is extremely light, so the wind often carries the fibers high into the air and to places several kilometers away from the vent. It is common to find fibers of Pele’s hair on high places like top of trees, radio antennas and electric poles. This is how they may interfere on the geomorphology.
What Are Pele’s Tears?
Pele’s tears (picture three) is a geological term for small pieces of solidified lava drops formed when airborne particles of molten material fuse into tearlike drops of volcanic glass. Pele’s tears are jet black in color and are often found on one end of a strand of Pele’s hair. Pele’s tears is primarily a scientific term used by volcanologists. They are rarely hollow like in photo four. Pele’s tears, like Pele’s hair, is named after Pele, the Hawaiian fire goddess of volcanoes.
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