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14-JUL-2008

In the area with the hummocks

Hummocks are chunks of mountain that landed a distance — sometimes,
a great distance — away from the crater. It wasn't until after the
1981 eruption that volcanologists truly understood where hummocks came
from (up to that time, they thought the stork brought them).

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