Glacial ice of Hawaii

Author:

n/a

Title:

Glacial ice of Hawaii

Periodical:

Paradise of the Pacific

Year:

1941

Volume:

53

Pages:

27-28

Subject:

Glaciation Glaciers

Summary:

This article described the recently published article "Multiple glaciation of Mauna Kea, Hawaii" by Chester K. Wentworth and William E. Poers in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. The upper part of Mauna Kea was glaciated four times, presumably contemporaneously with Pleistocene glacial advances elsewhere. The four glaciations, from youngest to oldest, are named the Makanaka, Waihu, Pohakuloa, and pre-Pohakuloa stages. The authors recognize terminal moraines, ground moraine, and outwash gravels for each stage. The deposits from the three earlier stages underlie later lava flows, as seen in cross section.

Label:

Geology - Glaciation

Date:

1941

Collection:

Periodicals