A name given in Hawaii (formerly the Sandwich Islands) to lava having a relatively smooth or billowing surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called aa.
(pah-ho-ay-ho-ay)...(n.)...smooth and sometimes shiny lava rock...slippery when wet or algae covered...cause of many banged shins while crossing stream...
A basaltic lava with a smooth, undulating surface.
A lava flow which has smooth, billowy, or ropy surfaces.
A smooth or "ropey" surfaced basaltic lava flow.(Please note that this definition was inverted with aa in the first version of this glossary).
A basaltic lava flow with a glassy, smooth, and ropy surface.
A lava flow with a surface texture of smooth, glassy, rope-like ridges.
A Hawaiian term for a lava flow that has a surface flow structure appearance that looks like coiled rope or cord. See aa for contrast.
A type of lava in which the surface was relatively fluid and so formed smooth or porridge-like surfaces. Variants include wrinkled or 'ropy' surfaces, like flowing pitch, and surfaces with small rounded knobs.
Hawaiian term used to describe thin, smoothly flowing, lava flows with a glassy plastic skin.
A Hawaiian term for lava with a smooth, billowy, or ropy surface. Click here to view a photo of pahoehoe.
a Hawaiian term for basaltic lava flows typified by smooth, ropy sur-faces.
A type of lava having a glassy, smooth, and billowy or undulating surface; it is characteristic of Hawaiian lava.
A Hawaiian term for a basaltic lava flow that has a smooth, billowy, or ropy surface.
A type of lava flow with a smooth but ropy surface.
Pronounced "pa hoi hoi". A smooth, ropey lava flow. Usually associated with hot, fluid lava. An Hawaiian term.
Hawaiian term for lava having a ropey surface structure.
A Hawaiian term for basaltic lava flows typified by a smooth, billowy or ropy surface.
smooth, rope type of lava flow
A type of basalt lava flow characterized by a smooth glassy skin, and constructed of innumerable "flow units" called "toes"; pahoehoe flows advance at rates of 1 to 10 meters (3 to 33 feet) hour and are associated with low-effusion-rate eruptions with little to no fountaining.
a type of basaltic lava that has hardened into a smooth, undulating, shiny surface. [AHDOS
A solidified lava flow with a smooth, ropey surface, formed from less viscous lava than aa. The name is of Hawaiian origin. read more
Pahoehoe (pronounced "pah-hoy-hoy") is a Hawaiian term for lava that, when solid, has a smooth or rope-like surface.
Basaltic lave of low viscosity so that it flows easily and smoothly. Solidified flows are characterized by smooth, ropey, undulating surfaces.