114 EARTH FEATURES AND THEIR MEANING 



Wherever lava flows into the sea in quantity, it extends the 

 margin of the shore, often by considerable areas. The outflow of 

 Kilauea in 1840 extended the shore of Hawaii outward for the 

 distance of a quarter of a mile, and a more recent illustration of 

 such extension of land masses is furnished by Fig. 110. 



