Hawaiian quaternary paleoenvironments: a review of geological, pedological, and botanical evidence

Author:: Gavenda, Robert T.
Title:: Hawaiian quaternary paleoenvironments: a review of geological, pedological, and botanical evidence
Periodical:: Pacific Science
Year:: 1992
Volume:: 46
Pages:: 295-307
Subject:: Glaciation Climate Quaternary
Summary:: The author summarizes the geological, pedological, and botanical evidence in Hawaii and characterizes the Hawaiian quaternary paleoenvironments, which include more rainfall and cloudiness, as well as lower air temperature. At low elevations, interglacial climates were drier than glacial climates because of the influence higher sea levels had on orographic rainfall distribution. Trade winds still predominated but the inversion level was higher.
Label:: Geology
URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1409
Date:: 1992
Collection:: Periodicals