‖ pahoehoe Geol.
(pəˈhəʊiːhəʊiː)
Also † pahoihoi.
[Hawaiian.]
A form of solidified lava that is undulating or billowy in form and has a shiny appearance. Cf. aa2.
| 1859 [see aa2]. 1864 R. Anderson Hawaiian Islands 142 The broken lava is piled ten or fifteen feet above the smooth, hard pahoihoi. 1869 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XXV. 434 From this a stream of the smooth satin-like lava called ‘pahoehoe’ in Hawaii flowed for a few hours. 1972 Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Sept. 4/2 One is pahoehoe—a taffy-like lava that has hardened into folds and creases that give it a smooth, ropy look, like frosting that has spilled over the top of a cake. 1975 Nature 29 May 387/1 The eruptions of this period include two..which produced pahoehoe instead of the more normal aa flows of Etna. |