Will It Blow Up? Experiments on Kilauea in Hawaii Honolulu, Jan. 17.
Extensive drillings into the great active volcano of Kilauea, on the Island of Hawaii, will be undertaken during 1922 in an endeavour to determine the heat of the vol-cane, the quantity of steam underneath, the mineral constituents and the solution of other related questions, Professor T. A. Jaggar, Jr., Government volcanologist at Hawaii, announced here to-day.
'A fund of $8,000 has been raised to defray the expense of the experiments, $3,000 having been contributed by Mr. John Brooks Henderson, scientist of Washington, D.C., and the remainder having been given by Bilo and Honolulu businessmen.
The places of most interest are where the ground is hot from recent or ancient volcanic activity," Professor Jaggar said in explaining the proposed drillings. ""Borings will be undertaken at the sul-} phur banks, at several places in the bottom of Kilauea crater, and in the region of recent Java flows at Kau desert. It is aimed to penetrate the surface where the Java flows are of known date, so as to learn what changes of temperature underground have taken place with the passage of time. This is the most important scientific and practical problem involved in the horings—how hot is the volcano and what are the steam and water conditions under vol-an active
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