Since lava is liquid rock, would I sink in like quicksand if I fell in? Or could I walk across it?

I’ve seen a few people with absolutely no knowledge on the subject write answers about how lava is as dense as rock, so you could never sink into it. Allow me to state, unequivocally, that you absolutely can sink into molten lava. Now, you will only sink in to a certain degree and what happens will depend very much on the type of lava. Let’s take a fluid lava, a mafic lava in geologic terms. This would be a basalt like you famously have at Hawaii, with classic lava flows. It has a density just a little less than rock so that there is no way you could step onto the surface of a lava lake and go completely under and stay submerged. You can’t even do that at the Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea, so you really can’t do that in lava. <a href="https://craigmcclarren.medium.com/since-lava-is-liquid-rock-would-i-sink-in-like-quicksand-if-i-fell-in-or-could-i-walk-across-it-ac3fb1b65f5c">Read More</a>